On September 10, 2000, Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity was published by Jewish scholars hosted by ICJS. This 20th-year online forum welcomes scholars and thinkers from around the world and across disciplines to revisit Dabru Emet (“Speak Truth”), engaging in critique as well as commemoration; historical reflection as well as reframing; rigorous inquiry as well as creative imaginings.
Forum Introduction
Contributors
Essays will be linked below as they are posted to the American Religion website each Tuesday and Thursday through May 2021.
- Dabru Emet After Twenty Years: The Question of Authority
David Novak, University of Toronto - From the “National Jewish Scholars Group” to Dabru Emet: Encountering Intrareligious Rifts
Shira Lander, Southern Methodist University - Dabru Emet and the Politics of Shared Texts in Interfaith Dialogue
Halla Attallah, Georgetown University - Interfaith Begins with Faith
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College - “We do not blame them for the sins committed by their ancestors..."
Katharina von Kellenbach, St. Mary’s College of Maryland - Dabru Emet at 20: Questioning the Centrality of the Shoah in Jewish–Christian Dialogue
Malka Z. Simkovich, Catholic Theological Union - Dabru Emet as a Model for ‘Reflective Believing’ Across Traditions
Robert Cathey, McCormick Seminary - Dabru Emet and the Era of Respect
Elena Procario-Foley, Iona College - Responses to Dabru Emet from the United Kingdom: Teaching the Next Generation of Christian Leaders
Edward Kessler, The Woolf Institute - “More profound than mere politics”: Encouraging Christian Support for Israel in Dabru Emet
Adam Gregerman, Saint Joseph's University - Christian Solidarity with Both Jews and Palestinians: A Critical Response to Dabru Emet
Yehezkel Landau, Landau Interfaith Training and Consulting - Dabru Emet: A Small Step Forward
Mark Silk, Trinity College - Dabru Emet’s Imagined Future and the Christian-Muslim Question
Matthew D. Taylor, Institute for Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Studies (ICJS) - Searching for a Twenty-first-century Understanding of God: Reflections in Light of Dabru Emet
John Pawlikowski, Catholic Theological Union - Promising Openings in Theological Encounter on the Trinity
Alan Brill, Seton Hall University - Dabru Emet 20 Years Later: Opening a Jewish Window
Ellen Charry, Princeton Theological Seminary - Dabru Emet the Jewish Nostra Aetate? Sic et Non
David Sandmel, Anti-Defamation League - Arguments for the Sake of Heaven and Earth
Christopher Leighton, ICJS (retired) - A Jewish Revision of Dabru Emet
Ruth Sandberg, Gratz College - Dabru Emet: A Grateful Evangelical Appreciation
Jason Poling, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church - Dabru Emet: A Marker of Revolutionary RelationshipJulia McStravog, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Interfaith Dialogue: Metaphysical Not Political?
Sam Brody, University of Kansas - Heather Miller Rubens, ICJS
- Speaking Truth in Late Antique Poetry
Laura Lieber, Duke University - “Holy Insecurity” Thinking about Dabru Emet with Martin Buber and Leonard Cohen
Maeera Yaffa Shreiber, University of Utah - Dabru Emet: “A Danger We Embrace with Love”
Ben Sax, ICJS - Judaism and Christianity in Dabru Emet and Into the Future
Peter Pettit, St. Paul Lutheran Church - Zeyneb Sayilgan, ICJS
- Edwin Aponte, Louisville Institute
- Victoria Barnett, independent scholar
- Judaism and Christianity: “Humanly Irreconcilable" Traditions
Mary C. Boys, Union Theological Seminary - Holy Uncertainty and the Promise of More Intersectional Engagements: Reflections on the Legacy of Dabru Emet
Laura Levitt, Temple University