ABSTRACT

The writers of the New Testament were largely Jewish and laying the blame for the Holocaust at their feet would be absurd. However, the later cultural origins of anti-semitism means that reading the New Testament after the event calls for a new ethics of interpretation. These essays address this grave issue in detail,

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Introduction

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PART I: THE HOLOCAUST IN THE HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION

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PART II: READING AS JEWS

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PART IV: JEWS AND GENTILES, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND TODAY