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A Shadow of Glory: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust
A Shadow of Glory Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust Author:Tod Linafelt Most contemporary scholars reject the notion that blame for the history of prejudice that preceded the Nazi's genocidal war can be laid at the feet of the New Testament writers, most of whom did not know a Christian religion as something distinct from Judaism. But acknowledging the later cultural origins of anti-Semitism means that reading the N... more »ew Testament after the Holocaust calls for a new ethics of interpretation. In A Shadow of Glory some of the most prominent contemporary biblical scholars-both Christian and Jewish, both American and European-lay the groundwork for this new hermeneutics.« less