The Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR)
Recent Activities and News
21 October 2021: Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich Memorial Event in Basel
In 2021, Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich would have turned 100 years old. On the occasion of the 14th anniversary of Ehrlich's death, scholars, friends and colleagues from Potsdam, Berlin and Basel gathered in his remembrance. A pioneer of post-Shoah Jewish-Christian dialogue, Ehrlich was among others an adviser to Cardinal Augustin Bea at the Second Vatican Council in the preparation of Nostra aetate. The Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund (ELES) that supports talented Jewish students and doctoral candidates with German or EU citizenship is named after him.
The lasting impact of Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich's contributions to Jewish-Christian relations is noticeable today more than ever.
The lasting impact of Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich's contributions to Jewish-Christian relations is noticeable today more than ever.
14 October 2021: Pope Francis and the Jewish Law - The Roots of the Present Controversy
(by John T. Pawlikowski)
(by John T. Pawlikowski)
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In August 2021, Pope Francis delivered two addresses at his Wednesday public audiences focused on the Epistle to the Galatians. In the address of August 11th, he made a statement that the Jewish law or Torah was no longer life giving. EJCR Advisory Board Member John T. Pawlikowski and Malka Z. Simkovich responded in their article "Pope Francis and the Jewish Law", published in Sightings (here) and available on the CCJR website (here). |
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18 September 2021: Rest in Peace, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schwöbel (1955-2021)
Christoph Schwöbel
(1955-2021)
It is with great sadness that we inform our readers about the death of Christoph Schwöbel,
Professor of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews,
who passed away on the 18th of September 2021.
We will dedicate our next EJCR conference to our EJCR author Prof. Schwöbel.
You will be greatly missed.
17 September 2021:
De Gruyter visits EJCR Office at European Center for Jewish Scholarship in Potsdam
De Gruyter visits EJCR Office at European Center for Jewish Scholarship in Potsdam
De Gruyter visits the EJCR Office at the new Abraham Geiger College location.
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Dr. Albrecht Döhnert (Editorial Director, Theology & Religion), Dr. Sophie Wagenhofer (Senior Acquisitions Editor Islamic Studies and Jewish Studies), and Alice Meroz (Acquisitions Editor, Jewish Studies & New Testament) came to the EJCR Office in Potsdam. We celebrated the new location of the Encyclopedia project's headquarter. |
August 18, 2021:
European Center for Jewish Scholarship opened in Potsdam
European Center for Jewish Scholarship opened in Potsdam
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The pictures were taken by Tobias Barniske.
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The Federal President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, spoke on the occasion of the opening of the new premises of the European Centre for Jewish Scholarship in Potsdam on 18 August 2021. His speech is available here.
In the summer of 2021 the Office of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations had moved to the new venue of the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam.
In the summer of 2021 the Office of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations had moved to the new venue of the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam.
16 August 2021:
Congratulations to EJCR Chief Editor Amy-Jill Levine for joining Hartford Seminar as Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies
Congratulations to EJCR Chief Editor Amy-Jill Levine for joining Hartford Seminar as Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies
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Recently named University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Prof. Levine’s appointment at Hartford Seminary begins on August 16, 2021. More information available here. Update: Click here for an interview in the Jewish Ledger with Amy-Jill Levine dated 20th of September, 2021 |
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Enoch Seminar, July 2021
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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 |
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Congratulations!
EJCR Advisory Member Philip A. Cunningham has been appointed ICCJ Honorary President. Press release here (27 June 2021) |
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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 |
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.
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)
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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:
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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!
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
"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.
 EJCR 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!" |
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EJCR is online since 24 Nov 2019
Launch of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR) online database
Launch of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations (EJCR) online database
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!
The database will be updated twice a year, and access is free of charge until May 2020!
EJCR Lunch Reception on Sunday, 24 November 2019
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.
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EJCR International Board Meeting
November 24, 2019 Our second international board meeting took place at the 2019 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Diego
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Christology between Judaism and Christianity Symposium
January 29-31, 2019
January 29-31, 2019
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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) 
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, 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
Panel Discussion, Rome, June 2018
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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: