Series: Jewish and Christian Heritage, 1Is the Gospel of John anti-Jewish? What would this mean in the context of the original writer, of his community, the final text and its first readers? Who, precisely, are the Ioudaioi who are so scathingly criticized in the Gospel - Judeans , perhaps, or some other more specific group than the Jewish nation as a whole? What are the implications for New Testament study and for Christian theology in the light of the troubled history of relations between Judaism and Christianity?The papers in this volume were presented at the special international colloquium held in January 2000 in Leuven, Belgium, which was convened to assemble the world s leading experts on John s Gospel and issues of anti-Judaism for a thorough assessment of the state of the question. The result is a fascinating panorama of the issues and of current approaches to them, and an extremely valuable resource for further work on anti-Judaism in the Christian tradition.Contents:1. Wrestling with Johannine Anti-Judaism: A Hermeneutical Frame-work for the Analysis of the Current Debate - Reimund Bieringer, Didier Pollefeyt, Frederique Vandecasteele-Vanneuville2. The Embarrassment of History: Reflections on the Problem of Anti-Judaism in the Fourth Gospel - James D.G. Dunn3. Anti-Judaism in the Fourth Gospel as a Theological Problem for Christian InterpretersR. Alan Culpepper4. The Fourth Gospel and the Salvation of Israel: An Appeal for a New StartStephen Motyer5. Anti-Judaism in Revelation? A Response to Peter Tomson - Jan Willem van Henten6. Anti-Judaism in the Fourth Gospel - Judith M. Lieu7. Escape Routes as Dead Ends: On Hatred towards Jews and the New Testament, Especially in the Gospel of John - Simon Schoon8. The Coming Son of Man Became Flesh. High Christology and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John - Bertold Klappert9. Abraham is our Father (John 8:39)The Gospel of John and the Jewish-Christian Dialogue - Hendrik Hoet10. Biblical Thinking as the Wisdom of Love - Roger Burggraeve11. The Identity of the Jews for the Readers of John - Johannes Beutler12. The Jews in the Gospel of John - Henk Jan de Jonge13. The Depiction of the Jews in John s Gospel. Matters of Behavior and Identity - M.C. de Boer14. Speaking of the Jews . Jews in the Discourse Material of the Fourth Gospel - Raymond F. Collins15. Jews in the Gospel of John as Compared with the Palestinian Talmud, the Synoptics and Some New Testament Apocrypha - Peter J. Tomson16. Jews and Jews in the Fourth Gospel - Adele Reinhartz17. The Nicodemus Enigma: The Characterization and Function of an Ambiguous Actor of the Fourth Gospel - Jean Marie Sevrin - 18. Salvation is from the Jews. The Parenthesis in John 4:22b - Gilbert van Belle19. John and Judaism - C. Kingsley Barrett20. You Are of Your Father the Devil in Its Context: Stereotyped Apocalyptic Polemic in John 8:38-47 - U.C. von Wahlde21. Scriptural Dispute between Jews and Christians in John: Literary Fiction or Historical Reality? John 9:13-17, 24-34 as a Test Case - Maarten J.J. Menken22. The Farewell Discourses (John 13:31 16:33) and the Problem of Anti-Judaism - Jean Zumstein 23. The Gospel of John: Exclusivism Caused by a Social Setting Different from That of Jesus (John 11:54 and 14:6) - James H. Charlesworth24. Anti-Judaism in the Book of Revelation - Jan Lambrecht25. The Canon Understanding of Revelation History of Reception and Effects. Problems of a Biblically Oriented Theology in the Face of Israel - Hans Hermann Henrix