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Yet the author herself occasionally universalizes, especially when she notes that "commonalities do exist" in the texts examined, a generalization that contradicts her own doctrine. Since such a claim universalizes the particular Christian belief about Jesus into an ontological reality, all efforts to be open to the other become impossible because there is always in such a christology a universalizing, supersessionist claim -- what Rosemary Ruether meant when she said that antisemitism is the left hand of christology. Some readers may object that Cahill universalizes what is properly the story of a particular tribe and that he offers the classic Christian reading according to which the drama of the Bible concerns not the redemption of the Jews but, ultimately, the redemption of the individual soul. |
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