Alan Mittleman, Byron Johnson, and Nancy Isserman, eds. Uneasy Allies?: Evangelical and Jewish Relations (original) (raw)

American Biblical Scholarship and the Post-War Battle against Antisemitism

Protestant Bible Scholarship: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism and Anti-Judaism. Edited with Arjen Bakker, Yael Fisch, Paula Fredriksen, and Hindy Najman. [open access], 2022

As part of a larger exploration of the role of Protestant biblical scholarship in the history of Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism and Jewish-Christian relations, this essay focuses on William Foxwell Albright and his enlistment of critical biblical scholarship and scholarly relationships as a way of allying Jews and Christians in the post-war struggle against Anti-Semitism in the United States. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

TRS 395A Jewish-Christian Relations (Fall 2016)

2016

Teaching/Research Consultant for Ambassador Zion Evrony - prepared course texts and supervised grad research assistant to assist in course preparation. This course will focus on the unique and complex relations between Jews and Christians, and their transformation in the twentieth century. It will analyze the milestone historical events and documents, with an emphasis on the twentieth century. A special emphasis will be given to the challenges of the present day dialogue and the position of Pope Francis. The course will include: an interfaith dialogue between a priest and a rabbi, a visit to a synagogue and the Holocaust Memorial Museum. The instructor will also share his experience as a participant in the Jewish Catholic dialogue in recent years.

The Divisiveness within the Evangelical Christianity by the Incursion of Neo-Zionist Ideology

2021

Donald Trump's era as U.S. president has cast a harsh spotlight on an influential segment of his supporter and voter base: evangelical Zionists in the United States. Without their political influence, the world politics of these four years, especially in the Middle East, might have been different. Instead of the Gospel and "Sermon on the Mount" ethics as the center of their faith practice, instead of responsibility as peacemakers, as befits the historical role of evangelicals as the "Third ('Left') Wing of the Reformation", For evangelical Zionists, the focus is rather on active and unconditional support for the colonialist expansion of a state whose policies – more than those of any other state in the "Western" world since the end of the Second World War – have produced and exported tensions, division and hatred, and are polarizing today more than ever before. Table of content: 1. Paradigm shift in Zionism and its radicalization. 2. Evangelical Zionists in apostasy from the historical heritage of the Reformation by an ideology strange to the Bible. 3. Ambivalent racism: Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism. 4. Propaganda as "Bible interpretation". 5. Classical evangelical initiatives for justice and peace. 6. What do we actually mean when we say "Christian," "Evangelical," and "Jewish"? 7. What is "Christian"? 8. What is "evangelical"? 9. What is "Jewish"? 10. What is "Jewish" in the meaning of the Bible? 11. Is Jewish "Zionist"? Or is Zionist "Jewish"? 12. May "evangelical " mean "Neo-Zionist"? APPENDIX: "Evangelical" in the meaning of the New Testament. (2021-07-02)