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Some new books in the Library
Christian-Jewish Relations
Michael
Wyschogrod, Abraham's Promise: Judaism and Jewish-Christian
Relations, (SCM, 2006) This book contains a collection of essays never previously published by leading Jewish theologian, Michael Wyschogrod. Subjects covered include the God of Abraham and the God of philosophy, sin and atonement, Judaism and the land and Paul on Jews and Gentile
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
, Many Religions - One Covenant: Israel, the Church
and the World (Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1999) Written by the present Pope while still a Cardinal, this little book explores the dialogue of religions, particularly the relation between Israel and the Church. God's covenant is the solid basis for Jews and Christians providing the inner continuity and unity between them.
Martin Goodman,
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilisations (Allen Lane,
Penguin Books 2007) Martin Goodman, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, takes as his starting point the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Over the following centuries Jews were pushed to the margins of Roman society and Rome came to be viewed by Jews as the epitome of evil power. This book seeks to explain why the polarisation of two ancient cultures occurred and to examine its consequences.
World Faiths
Barnaby Rogerson, The Heirs of the Prophet
Muhammad and the Roots of the
Sunni-Shia Schism (Abacus, 2006). This is a tale of the beginnings of Islam, of the rivalries between the successors of Muhammad. It tells how the divisions in Islam today stem from events of the seventh century.
Holocaust Studies
Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (Yale
University Press, 2003) Janusch Korczak (1879-1942) gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Sent to the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation he set up an orphanage for over 200 children. When the children were sent to Treblinka death camp Korczak went with them. His diary gives a remarkable insight into life inside the ghetto and reveals the spiritual and moral depths of a courageous man.