Word: judaeo-christian
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Pollard believes that Western culture oscillates between its Judaeo-Christian roots and its Graeco-Roman roots. At most times it is so firmly embedded in one tradition that the other cannot even be understood. Thus the Middle Ages Christianized Aristotle, while the modern age has secularized Jesus. In certain eras, the dominant viewpoint is no longer adequate for coping with reality, and men again grasp the full meaning of the alternative, thereby creating a mysterious Rennaissance. Thus the Alexandrine world was converted to Christianity; thus the Middle Ages were converted to Hellenism; thus the modern Alexandria will be converted once...
...walls are decorated with an extraordinary number of pictures. "Nothing like this," said Jesuit Archaeologist Antonio Ferrua, who headed the digging, "has ever been found in an early Christian cemetery." Some of the paintings show episodes from the life of Christ (the Sermon on the Mount) and from Judaeo-Christian legend (Lot and his daughters), while others are wholly pagan. Cleopatra is shown in a flower garden, holding an asp to her breast. A cubicle is devoted to the labors of Hercules. Other pictures seem to be scenes from contemporary Roman life, such as a teacher apparently lecturing about anatomy...
Jewish scholars and writers are showing an increasing interest in Christ as a teacher. Christians in their turn are more conscious of Judaism because of Jewish philosophers like Martin Buber (TIME. Jan. 23). In such fertile soil the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at New Jersey's Seton Hall University plants a seed of fact: Christ is the link as well as the difference between Christian...
...Oesterreicher worked to further Jewish-Christian understanding in Europe before he was forced to flee the Nazis during World War II. In 1953 he founded the institute with the encouragement of some of the top Catholic scholars in the U.S. and abroad. One result: The Bridge, a Yearbook of Judaeo-Christian Studies (Pantheon; $3.95), the first in a series that will review the relationship between Christians and Jews in history, philosophy, theology, the arts...
...leads from the Law to the Gospel-the unbroken economy of salvation." The first volume has provocative articles by 18 highly diverse writers, e.g., Renaissance Scholar and Jazz Critic Barry Ulanov, Jesuit Philosopher William L. Rossner. Hebraic Scholar Mother Marie Thaddea de Sion, and covers the range of Judaeo-Christian interests from Abraham to Simone Weil. The Bridge offers many paths to better understanding of both the Jewish and Christian heritage. Items...