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7B RELIGION/Xee Ctailotte $ot Thursday, April 13, 2006 Rabbi: Jews handicapped without New Testament THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Of all the texts considered required reading in a thor ough Jewish education, one major work with Jewish roots is usually missing from everyone’s list: the New Tfestament. Most Jews shun Christian Scriptiu'e. As a result, they can’t answer Christians who ask why Jews don’t accept Jesus as the Messi ah. Reform Rabbi Michael J. Cook says this “self- imposed ignorance” is dan gerous. At a time when many Christians are embracing the Jewish origins of their faith, holding Passover sedfers before Easter, Cook says he has taken on the “Herculean task” of con vincing Jews they must learn how the Gospels- molded Christian attitudes toward Judaism. “The New Ibstament is the greatest single external determinant of Jewish his tory, and deleteriously so in its causing Jews grievous problems,” said Cook, who holds the imusual job of New Testament professor at a Jewish seminary, the Cincinnati-based Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In a book he plans to publish next year, “Modem Jews Engage the New Testa ment,” he will present an education plan for how Jews can leam enough to answer “why they process it Job’s reflections Continued from page 5B where was he when He laid the foundation of the earth? In other words Job, wesre you there when the frame of the earth was created? Then God commanded Job to answer Him, if he can. Prove that you were in the same place as I when the earth was fashioned and explain in precise detail without error how it came to be. In vs. 16, God asked Job if he has been to the “springs of the sea” or to the “depth” (which refers to the same place)? Here God is asking Job if he knows about the creativi ty of the watCT-s. Job, do you know what lies at the very pit of the sea? Or, how many grains of sand are in the ocean? Or, why the waters never overflow the earth? Job had never been so far beneath the surface of the planet that he could observe the soiorce of the ocean. In vs. 17, God asked rhetorically whether Job had seal the entry way to Sheol - by making this connec tion, God was indicating that His control extends to issu^ of life and death. Job did not really understand these matters, either. Note: God never told Job about the reason for his pain, about the conflict, between Himself and Satan, which was the reason for Job’s suffering. He never gave Job any explanation at all about the circumstances of his trouble .3. How did Job respond to God’s challenge? (42:1-6) After God’s first interrogation of Job, there was a second interrogation (40:6-41:34). After aU of this. Job still did not know why he suffered so profovtndly but he was done com plaining, questioning, and challenging God’s wisdom and jus tice. He was reduced to sudi utter humility, crushed beneath the wei^t of God’s greatness, that all he could do was repent for his insolence. Wthout answers to all of his questions, Job qui etly bowed in humble submission before his Creator and admitted that (3od was sovereign and that it is pointless to challenge His ways. By contrast. Job’s power and xmderstandir^ were so small that he could not rightly dialler^ God’s fairness. The only thir^ Job could do was confess and repent. 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It also would help when public debates arise—like the con troversy about how Jews were depicted in the Mel Gibson movie, “The Passion of the Christ.” Many out siders viewed Jewish objec tions to the film as an affront to Christianity, damaging relations between the two faiths. Cook said most Jews had no idea how to explain their concerns about the script — even to their own children. However, the scholars also say there are too many other pressing issues in Jewish education—includ ing the increasing secular ization of Jews—to make New Tfestament learning a priority Burt ^Tsostsky, a longtime professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the flagship institution for Con servative Judaism, said many rabbinical students enroU at the seminary with out strong backgrounds in their own rehgion—let alone Christianity and other faiths. “In an ideal world, of course we’d train our stu dents to know something about Christianity and also Islam,” said Visostsky who teaches Midrash and inter- religious studies. “But where is it on the triage hst? I’m afraid not very high.” Jewdsh aversion to the New Testament is rooted in both religious law and his torical experience. Some passages in early rabbinic literature bar Jews from reading the Gospels, Cook said. 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When the case was first brought to me, I reserved my judgment until I could get all the facts on what happened. I accompanied her and her mother, along with others, to a meeting with school officials. To make a long story short, my little cousin did not assault the assistant principal. As her uncle in a far-away state rightly stated it: “This was an assault on a female student. I don’t know what you all are going to do about It.” And he works in the criminal justice system in his state. A local magistrate temporarily agreed with my out-of-state cousin. But the local officials gave in to “pressure" and charged my cousin with simple assault on a government official. At the Great White Throne Judgment, the assistant principal will be on trial for h#wrongs. You local officials can’t see that because it is hidden from you. 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