Challenging Anti-Judaism in the Revised Common Lectionary

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Challenging Anti-Judaism in the Revised Common Lectionary

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A Preaching Commentary

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By Ellen T. Charry, Bruce Chilton, Geoffrey Ready
Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
Release Date: May 31, 2027
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 320 g
Pages: 359

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Christian preaching too easily tilts toward anti-Judaism. Given that many Christians learn about Jews and Judaism primarily through sermons, it is imperative that preachers represent Judaism with care, accuracy, and theological honesty.

This commentary on selected texts in the Revised Common Lectionary helps preachers navigate passages that are easily read in an anti-Jewish manner--not by providing scripts, but by modeling the kind of careful, cross-disciplinary conversation that responsible preaching demands. Covering texts from Years A, B, and C and from all seasons of the church year, it brings three distinct theological voices into genuine dialogue: Ellen Charry, reading the texts afresh from her position as a Christian Jew equally critical of both traditions; Bruce Chilton, situating each passage within its historical and Jewish context and drawing on decades of comparative scholarship; and Geoffrey Ready, offering homiletical guidance grounded in Orthodox Christian theology and the "within Judaism" scholarship of recent decades.

The books animating conviction is that anti-Judaism in Christian preaching is not a minor correctable error but a theological problem at the heart of the tradition--one with a long history running from the New Testament canon itself through the formation of the lectionary. At the same time, the past six decades of Jewish-Christian dialogue, biblical scholarship, and liturgical reform have opened new possibilities. This commentary puts those possibilities to work at the place where they are most needed and least addressed: the Sunday pulpit.

Ellen T. Charry is the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Theology Emerita at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she taught systematic and historical theology and interfaith theology. She is currently completing Who Is the Israel of God? A Peace Proposal for Christianity and Judaism for Baylor University Press. Bruce Chilton, a priest of the Anglican Communion and currently Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard College, is a scholar of early Christianity and Judaism. His most recent books are Aramaic Jesus: Tradition, Identity, and Christianitys Mother Tongue (Baylor University Press) and Berenice: Queen in Roman Judea (Yale University Press). Geoffrey Ready is an Orthodox priest and director of Orthodox Christian Studies at Trinity College within the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the narrative of God and Israel in the Orthodox liturgy, Second Temple Judaism and Jewish-Christian origins, and Orthodox Christian theological dialogue with Judaism today.

Introduction

Part 1: Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany

Year A - Christmas

Year B - Christmas 1

Year C - Epiphany 4

Year A - Epiphany 6

Year C - Last Epiphany/Transfiguration

Part 2: Lent with Holy Week and Easter

Year A, B, C - Ash Wednesday

Year C - Lent 2

Year A - Palm/Passion Sunday

Year A, B, C - Good Friday

Year A - Easter 4

Year A - Easter 5

Year B - Easter 5

Part 3: Pentecost and the Balance of the Year

Year B - Proper 4

Year A - Proper 5

Year A - Proper 10

Year B - Proper 11

Romans 9-11

Year A - Proper 16

Year B - Proper 17

Year C - Proper 19

Year A - Proper 22

Year C - Proper 25

Year A - Proper 26

Year B - Proper 26

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Guidelines for Preaching on Jews and Judaism

Appendix 2: Gospel Parallels

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Challenging Anti-Judaism in the Revised Common Lectionary

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