Rollens, S., Vanden Eykel, E. and Warren, M. (2020) Confronting Judeophobia in the classroom. Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2 (1). pp. 81-106. ISSN 2633-0695
Abstract
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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Share Alike. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Judeophobia; Anti-Semitism; Pittsburgh; Synagogue |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2021 13:53 |
Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2021 22:32 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (SIIBS) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.17613/8nx4-qk70 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169282 |
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