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TABLE OF CONTENTS:Introduction Section 1: Jesus in Undergraduate Education 1.Teaching Jewish Studies, Hebrew Scriptures and the HistoricalJesus in the Context of Jewish Studies at a Two-Year Public College:Rationale, Objectives, Evaluation Zev Garber 2. Untangling Mythsand Misconceptions: A Narrative of the Undergraduate ClassroomRochelle L. Millen 3. Jesus "in the Trenches": Pedagogical ChallengesPosed by Teaching the Nazarene in the Context of Judaic StudiesKen Hanson 4. Teaching Jesus at the University of Alabama StevenLeonard Jacobs 5 Teaching about Jesus in a Catholic UniversityRichard L. Libowitz 6. Teaching about Jesus and Early Christianityat US Rabbinic Schools Joel Gereboff 7. The Jewish Jesus: AnEvaluation after Three Years Herbert W. Basser 8. Dialogue as Integralto Teaching about the Jewish Jesus James F. Moore and JosephEdelheit 9. Between the Literary and the Historical Jesus: Teachingthe Modern Jewish Writers’ Jesus Neta Stahl Section 2: Some Issuesin Teaching Jesus 10. Jesus the Jew: Who Says So? Norman Simms 11. Reflections on a Course: ‘Judaism and Early Christianity: TheParting of the Ways’—When? Where? Why? Leonard Greenspoon 12 Typical Christian Misunderstandings of Jesus and Judaism EugeneJ. Fisher 13 Teaching Jesus in a Halakhic Jewish Setting in Israel:Kosher, Treif or Pareve? Joshua Schwartz 14. Jewish Artists and thePerception of the Crucifixion Nathan Harpaz 15. Jesus on Film:Cinema as a Tool in the Discovery of the Jewish Jesus Penny Wheeler 16. Gravitating to Luke's Historical Jesus: Help or Hindrance? MichaelJ. Cook Section 3: Teaching Views on Jesus 17. Jesus, the Pharisees,and Mediterranean Manliness S. Scott Bartchy 18. Jesus as Sadduceeand Pharisee: Teaching the Teacher in the Gospel of Mark PeterZaas 19. Jesus as a Seditionist: The Intertwining of Politics andReligion in His Teaching and Deeds Fernando Bermejo-Rubio 20.Was Jesus a Pharisee? And Does it Matter? John Pawlikowski

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Teaching the HistoricalJesusIssues and Exegesis

Edited by Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, USA

Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context tostudents of varied religious backgrounds presentsinstructors not only with challenges, but also withopportunities to sustain interfaith dialogue and fostermutual understanding and respect. This new collectionexplores these challenges and opportunities, gatheringtogether experiential lessons drawn from teaching Jesusin a wide variety of secular and religious settings. A diversegroup of Jewish and Christian scholars reflects on their ownclassroom experiences and explicates crucial issues forteaching Jesus, providing practical case studies for scholarsworking on Jewish-Christian relations.

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“Teaching the Historical Jesus is a bold and admirable attempt to offer diverse yet superb essays on a highly relevant theme. Scholars of religion as well as proponents of interfaith dialogue will particularly welcome this pioneering and fascinating volume. Zev Garber should be commended for an outstanding achievement.” -Yaakov Ariel, Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA

“This collection will be of immense value for developing a wise pedagogy. Beyond that, this is a serious contribution to the on-going work of understanding and communication between Jews and Christians. It is the only book I know that takes on this difficult and important task of pedagogy.” -Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA