Jesus and the Holocaust
Subtitle: reflections on suffering and hope
By: Joel Marcus ; foreword by Ellen T. Charry
Edition: Eerdmans edition.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9780802874351
Subjects: Crucifixion of Jesus Christ; Good Friday sermons; American Sermons; Crucifixion; Sermons; Holocaust (Christian theology)
Description: What does Jesus have to do with the millions who died and the countless people who suffer to this day because of the Holocaust? In Jesus and the Holocaust, scripture scholar Joel Marcus finds meaning in the relationship between persecution of these millions of Jews and the crucifixion of the Jewish man named Jesus who suffered and died on the cross two thousand years ago. Marcus, a Jew raised in Chicago who later converted to Christianity, puts us in touch with the inhumane treatment and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust, and with the horrible suffering of Jesus. Originally presented in a Good Friday service - the day Christians reflect on the meaning of Jesus' death - Marcus's simple, stirring language and his use of images and poetry in this series of homilies evoke anger, tears, and warmth. Readers are surprised by the unexpected healing offered in this union of Jesus and the Holocaust.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The suffering servant; title: The secret mission (Yaffa Eliach); title: Homily; title: "You are being dehumanized"; title: Isaac (Amir Gilboa); title: Homily; title: An Atheist in five minutes; title: There's a certain slant of light (Emily Dickinson); title: Homily; title: "Father, forgive them"; title: "This cruelty too will end" (Anne Frank); title: Homily; title: The dying of the light; title: I heard a fly buzz when I died (Emily Dickinson); title: Homily; title: It is finished!; title: A hill in Bergen-Belsen (Yaffa Eliach); title: Homily; title: The earthquake; title: The Holy Feat (Emmanuel Levinas); title: Homily; title: Final thoughts; title: The gravestones in the Old Jewish cemetery in Prague (Joel Marcus); title: Homily.