{"product_id":"9781594735332","title":"Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift: Growing Beyond Our Wounded History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow did a Jewish teacher, healer, sage and                 mystic become the vehicle for so much hatred and harm                 directed against his own people?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e            \u003cp\u003e“Dialogue is demanding and                 difficult. It is often painful. It entails deep listening,                 letting others define themselves and being willing to confront                 and transform deep-rooted prejudices in ourselves. It requires                 the courage to re-envision absolutely everything we tend to                 cherish and protect, and to relinquish our entrenched                 vainglorious ego attachments, our inflated sense of ‘I,                 me and mine.’ This challenge to grow beyond tribalism, to                 approach others in a fair and reasonable way, is an essential                 step in our human evolution.”\u003cbr\u003e—from the Invitation to the Reader\u003c\/p\u003e                \u003cp\u003eJudaism and Christianity have had a                 volatile relationship in their two-thousand-year history.                 Anger, rivalry, insensitivity, bloodshed and murder have marred                 the special connection these two Abrahamic faiths share. In the                 last several decades, scholars, activists, laypeople and clergy                 have attempted to expose and eliminate the struggles between                 Jews and Christians. \u003c\/p\u003e            \u003cp\u003eThis collaborative effort brings together                 the voices of Christian scholar Ron Miller and Jewish scholar                 Laura Bernstein to further explore the roots of anti-Semitism                 in Christian faith and scripture. In a probing interfaith                 dialogue, Miller and Bernstein trace the Jewish-Christian                 schism to its very source in the first book of the New                 Testament, the Gospel of Matthew. Illuminating the often                 misunderstood context of Matthew’s gospel—a                 persecuted Christian minority writing some sixty years after                 Jesus’s death—this examination of a foundational                 Christian text discerns the ways in which the Jewishness of                 Jesus was forgotten and Jews and Judaism became                 Christianity’s foil. More important, it takes a renewed                 look at Matthew with contemporary retellings that present a new                 and better future of conciliation and compassion between the                 two faith traditions. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turner Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134398873840,"sku":"9781594735332","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781594735332_p0.jpg?v=1763814770","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781594735332","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}