Authors:Mary C. Boys, Shuly Rubin Schwartz Abstract: This article is a retrospective description and analysis of a course on Jewish-Christian relations offered jointly to students of Jewish Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary by a faculty member from each institution. The initial section lays out the fundamental contours of the course in 2020, with greater detail provided on the initial sections. The second explores areas in need of further refinement; a final section explores the potential of integrating threshold concepts, a way of opening new perspectives on topics, and proposes several such concepts that might guide future iterations of the course. PubDate: 2022-04-19 DOI: 10.6017/scjr.v17i1.15023 Issue No:Vol. 17, No. 1 (2022)
Authors:David A. R. Clark Abstract: This article examines Geffrey B. Kelly’s argument that, in 1941, the Reichsschrifttumskammer (RSK) prohibited Bonhoeffer from publishing because the agency objected to the ostensibly pro-Jewish and anti-Nazi content of Prayerbook of the Bible: An Introduction to the Psalms. The primary sources show that Kelly’s claims are unsupported by the historical record, as there is no evidence that Prayerbook figured into the deliberations of the RSK. If Prayerbook has implications for post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian conversations, then these implications must be demonstrated with reference to the text itself and not by recourse to its supposed reception by Nazi authorities. Kelly’s account exemplifies a problematic tendency to interpret Bonhoeffer, in the context of Jewish-Christian relations, through a misleadingly heroic or hagiographical lens. PubDate: 2022-03-07 Issue No:Vol. 17, No. 1 (2022)
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