Confronting Judeophobia in the Classroom
After an arrest was made in the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting (27 October 2018), it came to light that the shooter’s social media page was emblazoned with a citation from John’s Gospel 8:44 and a rough paraphrase of what the shooter thought it meant: “Jews are the children of Satan”. In the days tha...
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oai:doaj.org-article:5f3a1be69fb7470cb95fa9f80d49306f2021-11-18T14:47:02ZConfronting Judeophobia in the Classroom2633-069510.17613/8nx4-qk70https://doaj.org/article/5f3a1be69fb7470cb95fa9f80d49306f2020-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:32440/CONTENT/6-rollens_vandeneykel_warren-judeophobia.pdf/https://doaj.org/toc/2633-0695After an arrest was made in the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting (27 October 2018), it came to light that the shooter’s social media page was emblazoned with a citation from John’s Gospel 8:44 and a rough paraphrase of what the shooter thought it meant: “Jews are the children of Satan”. In the days that followed the shooting, educators scrambled to try and help their students make sense of what had happened. As three biblical scholars who teach in higher education in the UK and the United States, we outline our approaches to teaching about anti-Semitism in the biblical studies classroom. From students who resist reading the gospels as dangerous texts for Jews to the subtler nuances of supersessionism in popular and scholarly understandings of the New Testament, we address the successes and failures of our own attempts to combat anti-Semitism in our classrooms.Sarah RollensEric Vanden EykelMeredith J. C. WarrenUniversity of Sheffieldarticlejudeophobiaanti-semitismpittsburghsynagogueThe BibleBS1-2970ENJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 81-106 (2020) |
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After an arrest was made in the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting (27 October 2018), it came to light that the shooter’s social media page was emblazoned with a citation from John’s Gospel 8:44 and a rough paraphrase of what the shooter thought it meant: “Jews are the children of Satan”. In the days that followed the shooting, educators scrambled to try and help their students make sense of what had happened. As three biblical scholars who teach in higher education in the UK and the United States, we outline our approaches to teaching about anti-Semitism in the biblical studies classroom. From students who resist reading the gospels as dangerous texts for Jews to the subtler nuances of supersessionism in popular and scholarly understandings of the New Testament, we address the successes and failures of our own attempts to combat anti-Semitism in our classrooms. |
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