Wednesday, June 13, 2007

The Rabbi and the Pope.

An example of Judeo-Christian dialogue:

The Rabbi, attending a conference that offered mostly pork, snapped and said out loud: "I hope you all get trichinosis/And come to believe in the God of Moses."

A fellow conferee instantly replied, "And if we don't get such diseases/Will you believe in the God of Jesus?"

In 1993 the Rabbi, Jacob Neusner, published a book that had a great impact on the then-cardinal Ratzinger: “A Rabbi Talks with Jesus.”

Today, the Pope, in his "Jesus of Nazareth,” spends at least 15 pages on the Rabbi in the book's fourth chapter, dedicated to the Sermon on the Mount.

Read more about this new form of "disputation" here.

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