Society of Biblical Literature. Jewish-Christian Relations :: Dabru Emet - A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity. National Jewish Scholars Project | 15.07.2002 National Jewish Scholars Project A Jewish Statement on Christians And Christianity In recent years, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in Jewish and Christian relations. Throughout the nearly two millennia of Jewish exile, Christians have tended to characterize Judaism as a failed religion or, at best, a religion that prepared the way for, and is completed in, Christianity.
In the decades since the Holocaust, however, Christianity has changed dramatically. An increasing number of official Church bodies, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, have made public statements of their remorse about Christian mistreatment of Jews and Judaism. We believe these changes merit a thoughtful Jewish response. Jews and Christians worship the same God.
Jews and Christians seek authority from the same book -- the Bible (what Jews call "Tanakh" and Christians call the "Old Testament"). Jews and Christians accept the moral principles of Torah. New Revised Standard Version of the Bible Online at the GodWeb. The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) first appeared in 1989, and has received wide acclaim and broad support from academics and church leaders as a Bible for all Christians. The NRSV Bible Translation Committee consists of thirty men and women who are among the top scholars in America today. They come from Protestant denominations, the Roman Catholic church, and the Greek Orthodox Church. The committee also includes a Jewish scholar. Rooted in the past, but updated for today's Bible readers, the NRSV continues the tradition of William Tyndale, the King James Version, the American Standard Version, and the Revised Standard Version.
Equally important, it sets a new standard for the 21st Century. The NRSV stands out among the many translations because it is "as literal as possible" in adhering to the ancient texts and only "as free as necessary" to make the meaning clear in graceful, understandable English. Improvements over the RSV are of four different kinds: New Testament. UUJA. Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship.
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