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The Image of God

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This book examines Judaism in only one article out of ten, in which the author quotes only apocryphal texts and Philo, (all heavily hellenized texts which tend towards misogyny) and includes not a single article that examines or acknowledges the existence of rabbinic or Pharisaic Judaism at all. While the book deals extensively with later Christian theology, apparently Judaism stopped at the time of Jesus (or before, since the earliest rabbis were coeval with Jesus).

A finer example of Christian intellectual anti-Judaism could not be found. The fact that the rabbis insisted that men and women both participated in the image of God, whereas many church fathers thought exactly the opposite, was apparently too much to bear for the editor, who seems to be supercessionist (as implied by the term "Judaeo-Christian"). While "The Image of God" includes important analysis of Christian ideas about gender from the entire history of Christianity, anyone looking to learn more about Jewish ideas should avoid it. How in this day and age the editor could create such a narrow-minded work is beyond me.

This book examines Judaism in only one article out of ten, in which the author quotes only apocryphal texts and Philo, (all heavily hellenized texts which tend towards misogyny) and includes not a single article that examines or acknowledges the existence of rabbinic or Pharisaic Judaism at all. While the book deals extensively with later Christian theology, apparently Judaism stopped at the time of Jesus (or before, since the earliest rabbis were coeval with Jesus).

A finer example of Christian intellectual anti-Judaism could not be found. The fact that the rabbis insisted that men and women both participated in the image of God, whereas many church fathers thought exactly the opposite, was apparently too much to bear for the editor, who seems to be supercessionist (as implied by the term "Judaeo-Christian"). While "The Image of God" includes important analysis of Christian ideas about gender from the entire history of Christianity, anyone looking to learn more about Jewish ideas should avoid it. How in this day and age the editor could create such a narrow-minded work is beyond me.