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RELIGION/VIt CMrUnt
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Scholar examines Christian-Jew relationships
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ment exponents were writing
harsh attacks against fellow
Jewish Christians “rather
than Jews as a whole,"
Galambush says.
Both sides believed the
Jesus movement was authen-
ticedly Jewish and didn’t con
ceive of a separate faith called
Christianity “The New Tfesta-
ment authors fought, ulti
mately in vain, to maintain
their legitimacy as Jews," she
writes
In her view the New Tbsta-
ment, if read authentically as
a Jewish book, depicts the
beginnings of the "reluctant
parting' when Christians per
manently ceased being part o(
the Jewish pec^le But later
churches were whc^y Gentile,
so believers lacked that basic
understanding and the scrip
tures appeared "simply to
condemn Jews as Jews" _ a
lethal mistake.
The bulk of Galambush’s
study examines the New Tfes-
tament writings, book by
book
Paul’s epistle to the Gala
tians is pivotal. It was written
in the A.D. SOs following the
summit meeting (depdcted in
Acts 15) where Jewish follow
ers of Jesus accepted Paul’s
plea to free Gentile converts
frx)m the circumcision rule
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Gedatians is polemical,
likening Tbrah versus Gospel
to curse versus blessing ca*
slavery versus freedom. Paul
removes all earthly markers
of status and ethnicity, writ
ing that "there is no longer
Jew ca* Greek" euid no male
and female, no slave and free
man.
Paul sou^t to free Gentiles
from what he saw as "a false
sense of obligation to Tbrah,"
Galambush writes, but later
Gentiles misunderstood this
as "a wholesale condemna
tion of Jewish ritual obser
vance as practiced by Jews.”
Instead of Paul’s righteous
anger against fellow Jewish
Christians he disagreed with,
later Gentile Christians mis
takenly read his words as
anger against Jews in general.
When read as originally
intended, she concludes, the
New Testament becomes
"unfamiliar ... demanding,
even threatening,” for Chris
tians and Jews alike.
Inmate prevails in prayer feather lawsuit
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F'ebruary 12
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark - A
man who was held for 18
months in the Benton County
Jail has prevailed in a lawsuit
he filed to force jailo's to give
him access to a prayer feath
er.
Jailers objected to the feath
er on security grounds, but a
federal judge has ruled that
Billy Joe Wolfe Jr. of Jay,
Okla., demonstrated that the
feather was necessary for him
to practice his religion.
U S, District Judge Jimm
Larry Hendren accepted most
of a magistrates’ report that
said denying use of the feath
er was not reasonably related
to the goal of jail security The
report noted that inmates
had toothbrushes and other
items that could be used as
weapons.
Wolfe, a member of the
Cherokee tribe, pleaded
guilty in July to capital mur
der and kidnapping for the
slaying of Chetlee Janes in
2003 in Maysville. He is now
serving a sentence of life with
out parole in the state prison
system.
Hendren turned away a
magistrate’s assertion that
plaintiffs Sheriff Keith Fergu
son and jail administrator
Hunter Petray should pay a
token $1 damage award. The
judge said Ferguson and
Petray have qualified immu
nity. Ferguson and Petray
ai^ued that even if they did
violate Wolfe’s right to reli
gious freedom their immunity
was established at the time.
Hendren agreed with the
defendants that there has
been little guidance for courts
and judges cai the issue. He
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said there was no evidence in
this case that “a reasonable
officer” in Benton County
would know about Wolfe’s
particular religious beliefs or
the related ritual objects.
In a fiiend of the court brief
filed in the case, the Ameri
can Indian Heritage Support
Center ui^ed that Wolfe be
given the feather.
“It is tantamount to sug
gesting that the Christian
cross or rosary could be used
as a weapon or for sexual
gratification, which we sub
mit would be insulting to
most Christians. Hypotheti
cal situations should not be
coxyured up and passed as
fact,” the group argued.
Attorney Mike Rainwater
for the Association of
Arkansas Coimties says the
organization has researched
the issue of who is entitled to
a prayer feather and under
what circumstances.
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