Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context to students of varied religious backgrounds presents instructors with not only challenges, but also opportunities to sustain interfaith dialogue and foster mutual understanding and respect. This new collection explores these challenges and opportunities, gathering together experiential lessons drawn from teaching Jesus in a wide variety of secular and religious settings. A diverse group of Jewish and Christian scholars reflect on their own classroom experiences and explicates crucial issues for teaching Jesus, providing practical case studies for scholars working on Jewish-Christian relations.

Zev Garber is Emeritus Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Los Angeles Valley College. He is the Editor of Shofar and the author of The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation (2011).

Introduction Section 1: Jesus in Undergraduate Education 1. Teaching Jewish Studies, Hebrew Scriptures and the Historical Jesus in the Context of Jewish Studies at a Two-Year Public College: Rationale, Objectives, Evaluation Zev Garber 2. Untangling Myths and Misconceptions: A Narrative of the Undergraduate Classroom Rochelle L. Millen 3. Jesus "in the Trenches": Pedagogical Challenges Posed by Teaching the Nazarene in the Context of Judaic Studies Ken Hanson 4. Teaching Jesus at the University of Alabama Steven Leonard Jacobs 5 Teaching about Jesus in a Catholic University Richard L. Libowitz 6. Teaching about Jesus and Early Christianity at US Rabbinic Schools Joel Gereboff 7. The Jewish Jesus: An Evaluation after Three Years Herbert W. Basser 8. Dialogue as Integral to Teaching about the Jewish Jesus James F. Moore and Joseph Edelheit 9. Between the Literary and the Historical Jesus: Teaching the Modern Jewish Writers' Jesus Neta Stahl Section 2: Some Issues in Teaching Jesus 10. Jesus the Jew: Who Says So? Norman Simms 11. Reflections on a Course: 'Judaism and Early Christianity: The Parting of the Ways'-When? Where? Why? Leonard Greenspoon 12 Typical Christian Misunderstandings of Jesus and Judaism Eugene J. Fisher 13 Teaching Jesus in a Halakhic Jewish Setting in Israel: Kosher, Treif or Pareve? Joshua Schwartz 14. Jewish Artists and the Perception of the Crucifixion Nathan Harpaz 15. Jesus on Film: Cinema as a Tool in the Discovery of the Jewish Jesus Penny Wheeler 16. Gravitating to Luke's Historical Jesus: Help or Hindrance? Michael J. Cook Section 3: Teaching Views on Jesus 17. Jesus, the Pharisees, and Mediterranean Manliness S. Scott Bartchy 18. Jesus as Sadducee and Pharisee: Teaching the Teacher in the Gospel of Mark Peter Zaas 19. Jesus as a Seditionist: The Intertwining of Politics and Religion in His Teaching and Deeds Fernando Bermejo-Rubio 20. Was Jesus a Pharisee? And Does it Matter? John Pawlikowski