Description
What happens when two prolific religious scholars sit down and, together, read sacred texts of their different religions?
Chapter
Introduction: Reading Scripture Together
1. NEUSNER: Row a Rabbi Reads the Torah
2. GREELEY: How a Priest Reads the Bible
3. NEUSNER: Is Not My Word like Fire?
4. NEUSNER: Beginning "In the Beginning"
5. GREELEY: The Lovers in the Song—Creation
6. NEUSNER: God and Israel—the Lovers
7. NEUSNER: Let Us Make Man
8. NEUSNER: Adam, Where Are You?
10. NEUSNER: "I Regret That I Made Them," but Noah Found Favor
12. NEUSNER: And Abram Put His Faith in the Lord
14. NEUSNER: The Abraham of the Bible and the Abraham of the Torah
15. NEUSNER: "Take Your Son, Your Favored One, Isaac"
16. NEUSNER: "Then Jacob Made a Vow"
17. NEUSNER: "I the Lord Am Your God Who Brought You Out of the Land of Egypt"
18. NEUSNER: The Ten Commandments
19. GREELEY: Moses, Our Rabbi
20. GREELEY: The Faithless Bride—Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel
21. GREELEY: Who Is Lady Wisdom?
22. NEUSNER: The Prophets
23. GREELEY: Jesus—What He Said
24. GREELEY: Jesus—What He Did
25. GREELEY: Jesus—Who He Was
26. GREELEY: Women and Jesus
29. GREELEY: Saint Paul and the Gentiles
31. GREELEY: Mary, Jesus' Mother and Ours
32. NEUSNER: Mary—Can She Be Jewish Too?
33. NEUSNER: Is God Male or Female?
34. GREELEY: The Womanliness of God
35. NEUSNER: What Judaism Can Teach Christianity about Reading Scripture
36. NEUSNER: Thinking About "the Other" in Religion—It Is Necessary, but Is It Possible?
37. NEUSNER: Can Christianity and Judaism Conduct Dialogue? Yes, Says the Rabbi—Six Years Later
38. GREELEY: This Time the Rabbi Is Right!
Index to Biblical and Talmudic References