Oh Jew, Oh Gentile, Why? explores the situation that Jews and the church currently face by searching back to the roots of Jewish leadership’s animosity against Christians and Gentile atrocities against Jews. This is a call to recognize and admit Christendom’s sins against the Hebrew people for two thousand years. It proposes that Christendom got the big story wrong in the early centuries and challenges the long-held presupposition of having replaced Israel. The chapters raise progressive questions that explore how Christendom’s deviations from Scripture escalated, and how these legacies affect Jewish/Gentile relationships today, such as: How did Christendom become Gentile-ized? What legacies from the past alienate Jews and the nations today? Why is the growing Messianic Jewish movement so significant? Why can God’s people move into the future with hope? Such questions call for redirections vital to generating biblical reconciliation. At this tense time when Jews and Gentiles are reaping the lethal legacy of misguided doctrines and histories, the unity of God’s people is a crucial need. Who will accept and be blessed by the oneness already accomplished by Yeshua, the reconciliation that God says extends on into eternity?

For over a century New Testament scholars have explored the issue of possible antisemitism in Luke-Acts, especially because the author apparently blames the Jews for the death of Jesus. This monograph offers a fresh analysis of this question revealing a different emphasis: that among the Jews only those associated with Jerusalem, especially the Sanhedrin, are responsible for Jesus' death. Luke's Israel is in fact divided in response to Jesus, not monolithically opposed to him. Furthermore, the ascription of responsibility to the people of Jerusalem in Acts, widely regarded as a Lukan creation, in fact is more likely to have been based on sources independent of the synoptics. A consideration of ancient literature concerned with the deaths of innocent victims further suggests a likely "Sitz im Leben" for the transmission of material ascribing responsibility for Jesus' death.

Writing in an anecdotal and approachable style, Tom Wright helps us to see the great sweep of the letter to the Romans. This long-awaited two-volume addition to the hugely popular For Everyone series will be ideal for daily Bible study, a preaching aid or for those readers who are looking to deepen their understanding of this classic NT book. Tom Wright has a rare gift for communicating his understanding and enthusiasm to non-specialists. He is one of the few people alive today capable of undertaking a project such as the For Everyone guides. When complete, this series will include a new translation of the entire New Testament by Tom Wright. Section by section, the translation is accompanied by his eye-opening comments on each passage.

Highlights the legacy of three amazing, influential Roman Catholic cardinals In this highly recommended book, Rabbi James Rudin describes how the vision and commitment of Cardinals Richard Cushing, Francis Spellman, and John O'Connor helped to transform Jewish-Catholic relations in the second half of the twentieth century. Two introductory chapters contextualize their actions and reveal the extraordinary nature of these cardinals' actions. Pithy and accessible, this book will spark lively discussion among church and synagogue study groups. It will also add compelling case studies to seminary courses on ecumenism and interfaith dialogue -- regardless of any given group's position on the ideological spectrum.