Berghahn Books

Berghahn Books

English

“Homolka offers a knowledgeable and very readable overview over the engagement of Jewish scholars and intellectuals with the historical Jesus.” • Deutschlandfunk “The book is to be recommended…It provides a good overview of the most important ‘Jewish’ approaches to Jesus, which can serve to initiate further discussions and theological rethinking.” • Theologische Literaturzeitung “Perhaps the most significant contribution of the book is the chapter on Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict), whose trilogy on Jesus was largely ignored by Jewish scholars. Rabbi Homolka’s careful and thoughtful assessment of Pope Benedict’s views are important for Jews to read and understand. Rabbi Homolka’s book returns the discussion of “Jesus the Jew” to some of its original roots in Germany 150 years ago to a newly reconstituted twenty-first-century Jewish community there… required reading for those engaged in modern dialogue.” • Journal of Jewish Identities “…a brief and very helpful summary of a large body of scholarly work [that] includes an extensive and very useful bibliography.” • Journal of Ecumenical Studies “The book is well researched and is presented in a way that is accessible to any adult reader. This title would be appropriate for any collection serving an adult population.” • Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews “Homolka’s book is not only a very good introduction to an important topic, but it is also a kind of catalog with running comments on central theses and publications but also on studies in art history and literature on this topic.” • Christoph Marschkies, President of the Academy of Arts and Sciences Berlin-Brandenburg in Die Kirche “On the basis of integral bible hermeneutic the new Jewish interpretation of the Jew Jesus also is for us Christians a genuine enrichment.” • Henryk J. Muszyński, Archbishop emeritus of Gnesen/Gniezo, Poland “This book offers a constructive contribution to the debates on the theological significance of Jewish and Christian approaches to the historical Jesus. The author’s knowledge of Jewish and Christian discourses on both sides of the Atlantic is impressive.” • Werner G. Jeanrond, University of Oxford