The Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR)

Recent Activities and News

Enoch Seminar, July 2021

EJCR co-organized the 12th Enoch Nangeroni Meeting on "Constructions of Gender in Late Antiquity" (19-22 July 2021).

Following up on the Enoch Nangeroni Seminar on Gender and Second Temple Judaism (Rome, 2018), this seminar examined both the continuity and the shifts in the construction of gender as we move into the early 2nd–8th centuries. Our work together in this seminar emphasized the need for interdisciplinary scholarly discussion across different time periods that are in many ways arbitrary and anachronistic. Participants in this seminar utilized explicit methodology in their reconstruction of gender from the ancient textual and material sources in the areas of Judaism, Christianity, early Islam, and Roman religions. #EnochGender21
Congratulations!
​EJCR Advisory Member Philip A. Cunningham has been appointed ICCJ Honorary President.
Press release here (27 June 2021)
EJCR International Board Meeting
April 15, 2021
Our forth EJCR international board meeting took place via Zoom.
Participants:
​Anna Abulafia, Michael Berkowitz, Hartmut Bomhoff, William Campbell, Philip Cunningham, Kathy Ehrensperger, Walter Homolka, Uri Kaufmann, Edward Kessler, Ruth Langer, Amy-Jill Levine, John Pawlikowski 
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News Feed (March 2021):

Congratulations to EJCR Advisory Board Member Professor David Nirenberg, for having been appointed dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, effective July 1, 2022. 

EJCR at the digital SBL/AAR meeting 2020 (01 December)


How to fit in more than two thousand years of Jewish-Christian interaction into one single publication? Join our talk about the goal and challenges of creating the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR). How will EJCR provide readers support for their research and dialogue initiatives? The EJCR editorial team and authors will take you “backstage” to the heart of the project.
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<--- Click on the video to watch the recording of the EJCR session at the 2020 virtual SBL/AAR meeting


​Moderators: Kathy Ehrensperger and Juni Hoppe (Potsdam University), Alice Meroz (De Gruyter)

Special Guests: Philip A. Cunningham and Adam Gregerman (Saint Joseph's University)
Listen to the interview with EJCR advisory board member Philip A. Cunningham and EJCR author Adam Gregerman here:
EJCR International Board Meeting
November 23, 2020
Our third EJCR international board meeting took place via Zoom.
Participants:
​Anna Abulafia, Michael Berkowitz, William Campbell, Philip Cunningham, Kathy Ehrensperger, Klaus Herrmann, Rainer Kampling, Amy-Jill Levine, David Nirenberg, John Pawlikowski
In November 2020 the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR) online database was updated!
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New publications, now online: 
"Animals" by Jay Geller 
"Conservative Judaism" by Elliot N. Dorff
"Esau" by Gerhard Langer 
"Feminism" by Katharina von Kellenbach 
"Masculinity" by Eyal Levinson
"Passover and Easter" by Mary C Boys & Shuly Rubin Schwartz 
"Prayer" by Amy-Jill Levine 
"Revelation" by Mary Doak
"Sabbath" by Gerard Rouwhorst 
"Seelisberg" by Verena Lenzen
"Torah (Early Reception)" by Catherine Hezser

​To access, please go to: https://db.degruyter.com/db/ejcro
New Publication (September 2020)
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EJCR Executive Editor Kathy Ehrensperger and Shayna Sheinfeld edited this new publication.
 
Ancient literature was generally written by and produced for elite men. That fact creates specific challenges to modern interpreters of gender roles in the ancient world, especially once contemporary understandings of gender as construction and performance are embraced. In Gender and Second-Temple Judaism, world-renowned scholars take on these challenges with regard to ancient Judaism (here including early Christianity and early rabbinic Judaism as well), at once examining the ancient evidence and quite consciously addressing difficult methodological questions regarding gender. Taken together, these chapters further complicate discussions of the construction of identity (e.g., “who is a Jew?”) by inflecting them with questions of gender construction as well. Scholars of ancient Judaism and of gender alike will find much to grapple with in these pages.
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New Publication (June 2020)

Published in German.
Seventy years of Jewish-Christian dialogue has found surprisingly little resonance in Christian Systematic Theology. This insight was the basis of a conference in Vienna where exegetes and systematicians of Roman-Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish Theology intensively engaged in discussing the question: how can Christian traditions credibly speak of Jesus Christ without denigrating Judaism or appropriating it for their own ends? Arising from findings of contemporary exegesis, the volume presents a variety of diverse approaches to Christology that take Jesus the Jew seriously, and are willing to recognize Judaism in a manner characterized by mutual acceptance and esteem.

For more details, please click here. 


BildEJCR Chief Editor Christoph Markschies
November 2019: Professor Christoph Markschies will be the next President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), starting in July 2020.
Prof. Markschies was elected on November 29th to become the successor of Prof. Grötschel.
EJCR says: "Congratulations!"
EJCR is online since 24 Nov 2019 

Launch of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR) online database

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We are delighted to announce the launch of the EJCR online database. Since November 24th, 2019, the first EJCR articles can be accessed online.

The database will be updated twice a year, and access is free of charge until May 2020!

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EJCR Lunch Reception on Sunday, 24 November 2019
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EJCR at SBL/AAR in San Diego on Sunday, 24 November 2019.
EJCR Lunch Reception at the 2019 SBL meeting in San Diego, California - celebrating the launch of the EJCR online database.
EJCR International Board Meeting
November 24, 2019
Our second international board meeting took place at the 2019 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Diego
Christology between Judaism and Christianity Symposium
January 29-31, 2019
Jesus, the Jew from Galilee, and the Christian Redeemer:
Christology between Judaism and Christianity
​A joint conference presented by the Universities of Vienna and Potsdam;
​as an initiative of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR)
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​  Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät der
  Universität Wien / School of Jewish
  Theology, Potsdam/Abraham Geiger
  Kolleg, Potsdam, Encyclopedia of Jewish-
​  Christian Relations
  Vienna, January 29-31, 2019

  
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Christianity in Light of Jesus, the Jew
Panel Discussion, Vienna, January 2019
Panel Discussion LIVE on ORF (29th of January, 2019): "Christentum im Angesicht des Judeseins Jesu"
  • Prof. Christian Danz
  • Prof. Walter Homolka
  • Prof. Magnus Striet
  • Prof. Jan-Heiner Tück
Jewish Jesus Research and Questions of Christianity
Panel Discussion, Rome, June 2018
On June 20th, 2018, the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR) presented a panel discussion with international experts of the field. The event took place at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, in cooperation with the Enoch Seminar and supported by the Cardinal Bea Institute of the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical Biblical Institute; and included the following panelists:
  • Prof. Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley
  • Prof. Walter Homolka, University of Potsdam
  • Prof. Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University
  • Prof. Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa
  • Prof. Etienne Vetö, Pontifical Gregorian University
To watch the panel discussion online, please klick below:
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