Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II

A Seminary Co-op Notable Book“An astute and evenhanded study of how both faiths view themselves and each other.”-Publishers Weekly“An illuminating and important new book…An intellectual, cultural, and political challenge…[F]or anyone for whom the Jewish-Christian story is an important element in defining his or her identity.”-Israel Jacob Yuval, Haaretz“An extraordinarily sophisticated, insightful and provocative examination of how Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews addressed the prospect of reconciliation in the second half of the twentieth century.”-Glenn C.Altschuler, Jerusalem Post“A volume from which both Jewish and Catholic scholars may learn…This is an excellent book.”-Eugene J.Fisher, Catholic News ServiceA new chapter in Jewish-Christian relations opened in the second half of the twentieth century when the Second Vatican Council exonerated Jews from the accusation of deicide and declared that the Jewish people had never been rejected by God.In a few carefully phrased statements