Jesus Reclaimed ― Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene

Drawing on his 25 years of academic engagement with Christianity from a Jewish perspective, Rabbi Homolka aims to do justice to Jesus of Nazareth in his Jewish setting and to depict the Jewish perception of Jesus throughout the centuries. The book begins with an introduction: when a Jew looks at the sources: the Jesus of history, and is followed by three chapters titled, Jesus and his impact on Jewish antiquity and the Middle Ages; the historical Jesus: a Jewish and a Christian quest; Jesus the Jew and Joseph Ratzinger's Christ: a theological U-turn. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Rabbi Walter Homolka is the rector of the Abraham Geiger College, Germany’s first rabbinical seminary after the Holocaust, and a professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam in Germany. Active in Jewish-Christian dialogue, he is author of many books, including The Gate to Perfection: The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought (Berghahn 1995), Jewish Identity in Modern Times: Leo Baeck and German Protestantism (Berghahn 1995), and co-author with Hans Kung of How to Do Good & Avoid Evil: A Global Ethic from the Sources of Judaism (Skylight Paths, 2009).