University Press of America
Pages: 358
Trim: 5¼ x 8¾
978-0-8191-9295-0 • Paperback • December 1993 • $87.99 • (£68.00)
Lillian C. Freudmann, who holds an M.S.W. from Washington University, teaches courses in the Bible at the University of Connecticut, School of Continuing Education.
Mrs. Freudmann has written a very useful and well-researched book. While other authors have pointed out antisemitic aspects of the New Testament, she has substantiated the charge with a verse-by-verse examination of the texts and by adducing a wealth of comparative material from Jewish sources. She has many excellent points to make for the improvement of Christian teaching and the development of friendly Jewish-Christian relations.
— Hyam Maccoby, Leo Baeck Institute
...Her book makes a very substantial contribution to scholarly studies on this very important topic...
— Norman A. Beck, Texas Lutheran College
Lillian Freudmann's Antisemitism in the New Testament is an informed, candid, and lucid treatment of a most painful subject that has divided Jews and Christians for centuries...Freudmann's useful work should be read and pondered.
— Michael Berenbaum, director, Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University
...remarkable. Antisemitism in the New Testament is easily the best work I have seen on this subject and deserves to be read in the Vatican and in all Christian religious colleges and institutions.
— S. Levin, BIBLICAL POLEMICS
The intended audience is the general public rather than scholars, and the tone is polemical...In a relatively irenic look forward, Freudmann offers suggestions about taking the necessary steps to de-antisemitize the NT, describes anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, and urges that the Christian Scriptures be purged of their anti-Semitic elements.
— S. Levin, BIBLICAL POLEMICS; Critical Review
...Mrs. Freudmann has done with a high degree of competence what she sets out to do and her attention both to the anti-Jewish element in the NT and to the Jewish sources which stand over against these elements results in the most thoroughgoing and consistent treatment of this issue with which I am familiar.
— Clark Williamson, Indiana Professor of Christian Thought, Emeritus, Christian Theological Seminary
Mrs. Freudmann has written a very useful and well-researched book. While other authors have pointed out antisemitic aspects of the New Testament, she has substantiated the charge with a verse-by-verse examination of the texts and by adducing a wealth of comparative material from Jewish sources. She has many excellent points to make for the improvement of Christian teaching and the development of friendly Jewish-Christian relations.
— Hyam Maccoby, Leo Baeck Institute
...Her book makes a very substantial contribution to scholarly studies on this very important topic...
— Norman A. Beck, Texas Lutheran College
Lillian Freudmann's Antisemitism in the New Testament is an informed, candid, and lucid treatment of a most painful subject that has divided Jews and Christians for centuries...Freudmann's useful work should be read and pondered.
— Michael Berenbaum, director, Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University
...remarkable. Antisemitism in the New Testament is easily the best work I have seen on this subject and deserves to be read in the Vatican and in all Christian religious colleges and institutions.
— S. Levin, BIBLICAL POLEMICS
The intended audience is the general public rather than scholars, and the tone is polemical...In a relatively irenic look forward, Freudmann offers suggestions about taking the necessary steps to "de-antisemitize" the NT, describes anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, and urges that the Christian Scriptures be purged of their anti-Semitic elements.
— S. Levin, BIBLICAL POLEMICS; Critical Review