Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part 1. Reflections on the Relationship between Jews and Christians
6. 1. Paths Taken and Enduring Questions in Jewish-Christian Relations Today: Thirty Years of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews 1
7. 2. Progress and Issues of the Dialogue from a Jewish Viewpoint 12
8. 3. Jewish Perspectives on Christianity 23
9. 4. Reflections toward Jewish-Christian Dialogue 29
10. Part 2. The Need to Remember
11. 5. The Difficult Apprenticeship of Diversity 39
12. 6. The Shoah as a Shadow upon and a Stimulus to Jewish-Christian Dialogue 54
13. Part 3. Toward a Christian Theology of Judaism
14. 7. Israel and the Church—The Two Explorers of the Promised Land: Toward a Christian Theology of Judaism 71
15. 8. The Covenant That Was Never Revoked: The Foundations of a Christian Theology of Judaism 92
16. 9. Jewish-Christian Relations: A Conciliar Discovery and Its Methodological Consequences for Dogmatic Theology 113
17. Part 4. The Post-Shoah Catholic-Jewish Dialogue
18. 10. Nostra Aetate and the Discovery of the Sacrament of Otherness 127
19. 11. The Creation and Work of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews 152
20. 12. The Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee 159
21. 13. A Sign of Great Hope: The Beginning of the Dialogue between the Holy See and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel 167
22. Part 5. The New Relationship between the Holy See and the State of Israel
23. 14. The Vatican and Israel 177
24. 15. The State of Israel and the Holy See 186
25. Appendixes
26. Appendix 1: Drafts Leading to the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate 191
27. Appendix 2: Joint Declarations of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee (ILC) 201
28. Appendix 3: Joint Statements of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel’ s Delegation for Relations with the Catholic Church 223
29. Appendix 4: Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel, December 30, 1993 233
30. Notes 241
31. About the Contributors 257
32. About the Editors 259
33. Index 261
34. Index of Scriptural Passages 269