[Courtesy of CBA Task Force]
In these FACT SHEETS, members of the Catholic Biblical Association of America briefly explain common misrepresentations of Jews when reading the New Testament and offer several remedies, drawing upon current biblical scholarship and Catholic hermeneutical principles. It is hoped that authors, editors, teachers, and preachers will take cognizance of them when writing and speaking about New Testament texts. In this way, they will constructively impart to the Catholic community “an exact knowledge of the wholly unique ‘bond’ (Nostra Aetate, no. 4) which joins us as a Church to the Jews and to Judaism.”3
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- “Address to Participants in the Vatican Symposium on ‘The Roots of Anti-Judaism in the Christian Milieu,’” October 31, 1997, §1.
- “Declaration of Repentance,” September 30, 1997 (Read in Drancy, France on the 75th anniversary of the passage of antisemitic laws by the collaborationist Vichy government during the Nazi occupation of France.)
- Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, “Notes on the Correct Way to Present Jews and Judaism in Preaching and Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church,” June 24, 1985, §8.
CBA FACT SHEETS INTRODUCTION
CBA FACT SHEET ON THE DEATH OF JESUS
CBA FACT SHEET ON LEPERS AND LEPROSY
CBA FACT SHEET ON THE PHARISEES
CBA FACT SHEET ON JESUS AND WOMEN
Other Fact Sheets are in preparation