Se hela artikeln på Newsmill. The article is unfortunately only in Swedish. The issue is the growing anti-Semitism in Sweden, especially in our third largest city, Malmö, where 79 anti-Semitic crimes were registered last year. To me this is 79 too many. In Sweden now there is an intensive debate about the major Ilmar Reepalu [...]
Just to refresh what is the background of Aftonbladet’s article: my article about the age-old conspirational theories of blood-thirsty Jews slaugthering children, Bakgrunden till myten om den blodtörstige juden at Newsmill. Unfortunately only in Swedish… sorry.
Coming back to Aftonbladet’s infamous article by Daniel Boström, there was an attempt by its cultural editor Åsa Linderborg to close the debate, summarising that Aftonbladet was right and its critics were wrong (En svart paradox. Åsa Linderborg om organstölderna och medlöparna). She suggests that the fact that the Israeli Pathologist Yehuda Hiss admitted to, [...]
When evaluating the work of a scholarly discipline, understanding the symbolic world—the though world—of the scholars it is necessary to understand the time in which they live. Since my work over the last 8–9 years have been to understand of German exegetes construct Jews and Judaism, I also need to explore their views of ethnicity, [...]
My friend Roar Sørensen has added a comment to some comments on the blog. Thank you! I think it is very important, and today not very controversial, to state that “Jesus fit within the Judaism of his day.” Even though I think this statement should be further qualified, this represents quite a broad consensus. In [...]
My longest trip this fall was first three days in Dresden, then another four teaching in Moscow, plus three days travel… Ten days. Wearying, but interesting.
The Dresden symposium was held at Hannah-Arendt-Institut-für-Totalitarismusforschung at the TU Dresden. Around fifteen scholars, all but myself from Germany, read papers over the theme. ‘Voelkisch’ religion is difficult to delimit. [...]
My friend David Nyström has commented (see comment) on my previous post on Israel and the Church, and I think his question is so important that I put the answer into an own post.
However, his question is a difficult one. David writes about supersessionism, and adds:
I’m also not very convinced by its most powerful alternatives [...]
In his book The Body of Faith, a fascinating account of classical Judaism in the clothes of modern theological and philosophical discourse, the Jewish theologian Michael Wyschogrod writes:
The circumcised body of Israel is the […] carnal presence through which the redemption makes its way in history. Salvation is of the Jews because the flesh of [...]
Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
These were the words of Adolf Hitler as he motivated his plans for a genocide on a far larger scale, that on the Jews:
Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness — for the present only in the East — with orders to them [...]
As I mentioned in my latest post, some perspectives fundamental in the Bible are almost always missing in ‘systematic theologies’. Like in chemistry it makes a tremendous difference if we add a certain substance or not, or if we miss a catalyst. I do believe Israelology is a key issue in Christian theology, which is [...]