ABSTRACT

Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context to students of varied religious backgrounds presents instructors with not only challenges, but also opportunities to sustain interfaith dialogue and foster mutual understanding and respect. This new collection explores these challenges and opportunities, gathering together experiential lessons drawn from teaching Jesus in a wide variety of settings—from the public, secular two- or four-year college, to the Jesuit university, to the Rabbinic school or seminary, to the orthodox, religious Israeli university. A diverse group of Jewish and Christian scholars reflect on their own classroom experiences and explicates crucial issues for teaching Jesus in a way that encourages students at every level to enter into an encounter with the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament without paternalism, parochialism, or prejudice. This volume is a valuable resource for instructors and graduate students interested in an interfaith approach in the classroom, and provides practical case studies for scholars working on Jewish-Christian relations.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

part |107 pages

Jesus in Undergraduate Education

chapter |11 pages

Untangling Myths and Misconceptions

A Narrative of the Undergraduate Classroom

chapter |12 pages

Jesus “in the Trenches”

Pedagogical Challenges Posed by Teaching the Nazarene in the Context of Judaic Studies

chapter |13 pages

The Jewish Jesus

An Evaluation after Three Years

chapter |9 pages

Between the Literary and the Historical Jesus

Teaching the Modern Jewish Writers' Jesus

part |88 pages

Some Issues in Teaching Jesus

chapter |12 pages

Jesus the Jew

Who Says So?

chapter |13 pages

Reflections on a Course

Judaism and Early Christianity: The Parting of the Ways—When? Where? Why?

chapter |12 pages

Teaching Jesus in a Halakhic Jewish Setting in Israel

Kosher, Treif, or Pareve?

chapter |13 pages

Jesus on Film

Cinema as a Tool in the Discovery of the Jewish Jesus

chapter |12 pages

Gravitating to Luke's Historical Jesus

Help or Hindrance?

part |49 pages

Teaching Views on Jesus

chapter |11 pages

Jesus as Sadducee and Pharisee

Teaching the Teacher in the Gospel of Mark

chapter |12 pages

Jesus as a Seditionist

The Intertwining of Politics and Religion in His Teaching and Deeds