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Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition?
Perspectives on Jewish Texts
and Contexts
Edited by
Vivian Liska
Editorial Board
Robert Alter, Steven E. Aschheim, Richard I. Cohen, Mark H. Gelber,
Moshe Halbertal, Geoffrey Hartman, Moshe Idel, Samuel Moyn,
Ada Rapoport-Albert, Alvin Rosenfeld, David Ruderman, Bernd Witte
Volume 4
Is there a
Judeo-Christian
Tradition?
A European Perspective
Edited by
Emmanuel Nathan
Anya Topolski
Volume inspired by the international workshop “Is there a Judeo-Christian tradition?” as part of
the UCSIA/IJS Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies
of the University of Antwerp and the University Centre Saint Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA).
An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libra-
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ISSN 2199-6962
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Acknowledgments
On 12 and 13 February 2014, the Institute of Jewish Studies (IJS) and the University
Centre Saint Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA) jointly organized a two-day international
workshop at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, entitled “Is there a Judeo-Chris-
tian tradition?” This conference was organized as part of the annual UCSIA/
IJS joint Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations 2013-2014. Instead of one scholar
holding the chair for that academic year (as had been done annually up to that
point since 2008-2009), both institutes decided to invite a number of scholars
to examine and question the assumption of a shared Judeo-Christian tradition
from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. We are grateful to the directors
of both institutes, Prof. Dr. Vivian Liska (IJS) and Prof. Dr. Jacques Haers, sj (then
director of UCSIA), for taking the lead on this venture. In addition to their input,
the conference would not have been possible without the expert organizational
help from Mr. Jan Morrens (IJS) and Ms. Barbara Segaert (UCSIA), and of course
the invaluable input from the scholars who participated in this workshop in a
most dynamic way.
Resulting from this workshop, Vivian approached both of us to produce an
edited volume for her series, “Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts,” pub-
lished by De Guyter. Since some readers may wonder how this volume is rele-
vant to Judaism today, we offer four possible reasons. First, a careful study of
the Judeo-Christian signifier indicates that it should resist a Christian superses-
sion of Judaism, the signifier should not be used as a synonym for Christianity.
Second, this study recognizes that Judaism has been an inextricable part of the
‘Judeo-Christian’ signifier when in Christian western lands. It may not always have
been part of the conversation on that signifier, yet as this volume has made amply
clear, when Jews have not been part of that conversation, others have stepped
in to decide the conversation for them. In many ways, the latter half of the 20
th
century has seen a conscious attempt by Jewish scholars to rectify and correct
this bias. Third, it should not go unsaid that the ‘floating signifier’ of ‘Judeo-Chris-
tian’ has also resignified Judaism and this has not only been negative. To be sure,
Christianity has quite often undervalued and, at some points sought to eradicate,
its Jewish roots. Yet rabbinic Judaism has from its inception been in a recipro-
cal dialogue with Christianity (and, when living in Islamic lands, with Islam). As
such it should not be forgotten that Christianity and Islam have been Judaism’s
other and both these religious traditions can impact Judaism (and have done so)
also for the better. Fourth, and finally, examining the ‘Judeo-Christian’ signifier
up close has revealed that neither side of that hyphen harbours a stable category.
That is to say, neither Judaism nor Christianity is one stable, homogenous, cate-
gory. There are Judaisms and Christianities. Vive les differences!

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