[Peace-discuss] Shlomo Sand: The Invention of the Jewish People

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I would love to be there and audit the course, but I am not going to 
become an ex-(ex-(ex-patriate)) very soon.

George Warnock has an interesting treatment of the intertwining of 
Judaism and Christianity in "The Feast of Tabernacles" (1951)
http://www.georgewarnock.com/feast-main.html



On 8/10/2010 3:18 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> OK, I'm going to have to read it.  I'm teaching a History of 
> Christianity course in the Religious Studies Department this fall, and 
> in fact there's been some interesting academic work in the last decade 
> on the inter-mixture of Judaism and Christianity ca. 200-500CE.  I 
> hope I have students au courant enough to ask about Sand & the the 
> early relationship between Judaism and Christianity. --CGE
>
> On 8/9/10 1:00 PM, David Green wrote:
>> Hi Mort,
>> I'm more than half-way through it, and it's fascinating, although 
>> often tough going. It's also very well-written, well-translated, or 
>> both. I think it gets at historical truths, but more interestingly 
>> (as Adam points out) at historiographical truths from 19th century 
>> Germany, through the origins of Zionism, to the present. What's done 
>> is done, and Israel "exists." But it wouldn't hurt if people 
>> understood the implications of the likelihood that the Palestinians 
>> are descendants of the Judaeans of antiquity, and that Jews like you 
>> and me are almost certainly not. It also says a lot about the early 
>> relationship between Judaism and Christianity that is not well known.
>> DG
>>
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>> *From:* Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu>
>> *To:* David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
>> *Sent:* Mon, August 9, 2010 12:30:47 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] Shlomo Sand: The Invention of the 
>> Jewish People
>>
>> David,
>>
>> Thanks for sending this along. Have you read Sand's book? Opinions? 
>>  There are many on the Amazon web site for this book. Of course, how 
>> to distinguish the politics from the "truth" is a problem seen there.
>>
>> Mort
>>
>> On Aug 9, 2010, at 8:37 AM, David Green wrote:
>>
>>> A brief review of this book by Adam Sutcliffe, formerly on the 
>>> faculty here:
>>> http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=10668&jid=1&href=fulltext 
>>> <http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=10668&jid=1&href=fulltext>
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