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For four decades, Marc H. Ellis has sought to rethink the Jewish tradition in light of the prophetic imperative, especially with regard to the need for geopolitical justice in the context of Israel/Palestine. Here, twenty-two contributors offer intellectual, theological, political, and journalistic insight intoEllis’s work, connecting his theological scholarship to the particularities of their own contexts. Some contributors reflect specifically on Israel/Palestine while others transfer Ellis’s theopolitical discussions to other geopolitical, cultural, or religious concerns. Yet all of them rely on Ellis’s work to understand the connections of prophetic discourses, religious demands, social movements, and projects of social justice. Paying particular attention to global racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, white supremacy, and current neocolonial practices, the contributors also address minoritized liberation theologies, the role of memory, exile and forgiveness, biblical hermeneutics, and political thought. In diverse and powerful ways, the contributors ground their scholarship with the activist drive to deepen, enrich, and strengthen intellectual work in meaningful ways.
List of contents
Introduction: The Emergence of the Global Prophetic in the New Diaspora
Susanne Scholz and Santiago Slabodsky
Practicing Exile in the New Diaspora as a Jewish Scholar of Conscience: An Interview with Marc H. Ellis
Susanne Scholz and Santiago Slabodsky
Part 1. Beyond Innocence and Redemption: Jews, Race, and Colonization
1. The Last Jew in Gaza
Sara Roy
2. Israel and the Idolatry of Whiteness: The Critique of Race that Marc Ellis Never Knew He Made
Jessica Wai-Fong Wong
3. The Ecumenical Deal, the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and the Christian Colonization of Judaism
Robert O. Smith
4. "When Can You Start?" Marc Ellis's Contributions from a Jewish Latin American Standpoint
Santiago Slabodsky
Part 2. Unholy Alliance: Other Christianities, Prophetic Liberations
5. A Palestinian Christian Liberation Theologian Encounters a Jewish Liberation Theologian
Naim Ateek
6. Riding with Don Quixote
Miguel A. De La Torre
7. Reading the Hebrew Bible in Solidarity with the Palestin
About the author
Jin Young Choi is professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and the Baptist Missionary Training School Professorial Chair for Biblical Studiesat Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and author of Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark.Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics and Latino/a Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.KWOK Pui-lan is Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is a past president of the American Academy of Religion.
Summary
This book gathers twenty-two scholars and activists, living in interconnected diasporas, to explore the connections between Marc H. Ellis’s Jewish liberation theology and current intellectual and geopolitical developments in Israel/Palestine and the world.
