A Dictionary of Jewish‐Christian Relations

Today's faith issues are shot through the modernity and relativism, ecumenism and cross‐culturalism, and growing politicization. These have provoked us to look afresh at “givens” like the Judaeo‐Christian tradition. The Cambridge Centre for the study of Jewish‐Christian Relations is one body of several in the field, and Edward Kessler, director of the centre, has contributed formative works to knowledge in the field. We think particularly of books like Jews and Christians in Conversation (Kessler et al., 2002) and the very recent Challenges in Jewish‐Christian Relations (Aitken and Kessler, 2006).

These form part of that wide...