Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I CHRISTIAN ORIGINS AND NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES IN IDEOLOGICALLY AND HISTORICALLY CONTAMINATED CONTEXTS
- PART II NEO-ORIENTALISM: ORIENTALISM, HIDEOUSLY EMBOLDENED
- PART III “JEWISHNESS,” JESUS AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS SINCE 1967
- Chapter 5 The Context: Judaism and Christianity; Israel and the West
- Chapter 6 Jewish…but Not That Jewish
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Names
Chapter 6 - Jewish…but Not That Jewish
from PART III - “JEWISHNESS,” JESUS AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS SINCE 1967
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I CHRISTIAN ORIGINS AND NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES IN IDEOLOGICALLY AND HISTORICALLY CONTAMINATED CONTEXTS
- PART II NEO-ORIENTALISM: ORIENTALISM, HIDEOUSLY EMBOLDENED
- PART III “JEWISHNESS,” JESUS AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS SINCE 1967
- Chapter 5 The Context: Judaism and Christianity; Israel and the West
- Chapter 6 Jewish…but Not That Jewish
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Names
Summary
The November 2002 convention of the Christian Coalition, held in Washington DC, was opened with a videotaped benediction that came straight from the Oval Office. The most powerful Republicans in Congress addressed the Convention (as did the Zionist mayor of Jerusalem), including Tom Delay who was then the House majority whip. We are “standing up for Jews and Jesus” he told the crowd.
Lawrence DavidsonIsrael, Biblical Studies and Cultural Context
With this general cultural and historical context behind us we can now see why Jesus the Jew emerges as late as the 1970s. For a start, in terms of religious context, it is well known that many scholars in the discipline work in highly conservative evangelical seminaries and Bible colleges (particularly in the US) and it would not be difficult to find staunchly pro-Israel Christian scholars. For example, after outlining the various positions of conservative Christians on end times and Israel, the well-known dispensationalist New Testament scholar, Darrell Bock, writing in the Los Angeles Times, adds the following “practical concerns by almost all of these groups about whether any agreement can be signed that will truly give Israel peace”:
When so many radical Muslims believe that mere Jewish presence defiles the Holy Land – and thus Israel as the Jewish state must be removed and the Palestinians liberated – then one wonders whether peace in fact would result. Some of the violence we see now is the result of those who deny Israel's right to exist.
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- Jesus in an Age of TerrorScholarly Projects for a New American Century, pp. 173 - 194Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2008