Abstract
This important and significant book marks the fiftieth anniversary of the issue from the Vatican Council of the document Nostra Aetate (In our Time): The Declaration on the Church’s Relationship to Non-Christian Religions, which revolutionized relations between the Catholic Church and Judaism. Catholic scholars took on board the historical and literary critique of biblical texts, and made new judgements on traditional teachings about Judaism. This meant taking seriously the Jewish faith within its own self-understanding. Nostra Aetate recognized that the Covenant between God and the Jewish people had never been abrogated and there should be no further contempt towards that faith. Cunningham has detailed sections on three of the particularities of Judaism and examines their contemporary and traditional significance—the Covenant itself, the centrality of the Torah, and the land of Israel as divinely sanctioned—all interwoven with implications for Christian teaching. The author also has a lengthy chapter on Paul’s Letter to the Romans which focuses on Jewish debates of the time and on the context of likely hearers of the letter, as well as observing that Paul would never have foreseen how Judaism would develop and flourish following the destruction of the Temple.
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