BOOK REVIEW:

Ex-Christian scholar explores New Testament views of Jews

By Richard N. Ostling
The Associated Press
Posted March 24 2006

Julie Galambush brings a rare background to the often delicate topic of Jewish-Christian relations and her special interest in the first-century split between the two faiths.

She was an American Baptist Churches minister and teacher at the Lutherans' St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Now a convert to Reform Judaism who belongs to a temple in Falls Church, Va., she teaches Bible at the College of William and Mary.

Galambush, naturally, doesn't believe in Jesus' divinity. But her main emphasis is that Christians misunderstand what their scriptural writers originally meant to say about Jews.

She develops that case in The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament's Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book (HarperSanFrancisco). ...

Looks interesting.