Jewish Jesus Research and Its Challenge to Christology Today

Now that scholars widely recognize the Jewishness of Jesus and emphasize the Jewish roots of Christianity, says Homolka, Christian scholars need to formulate a new Christology, one that fills the space between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity. He covers historical Jesus research: a reception history, the Jewish Jesus quest and the Wissenschaft des Judentums, reclaimed or reclaiming: recent Jewish approaches to Jesus' Wirkungsgeschichte, and Jewish quests and Christian problems. This is a paperbound reprint of the 2017 clothbound edition. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Rabbi Walter Homolka, PhD (King's College London, 1992), PhD (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2015), DHL (HUC-JIR New York 2009), is Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Interreligious Dialogue at the University of Potsdam, executive director of the School of Jewish Theology and rector of the Abraham Geiger College.