On this issue, I recommend the perspective of @wilgafney.bsky.social . An internet-friendly version of her take is here: www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries...

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Thanks, i saw this in my searching but wasn’t sure how it compared to others.

I was thinking that even if I’m not yet permitted to post an article, I can still link the DOI.

In so doing, We Are Israel offers a more nuanced framework for thinking about supersessionism as a reflection of the shared heritage of these traditions—and therefore as a new starting point for Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Writing as Christian and Jewish Bible scholars who are grounded in the historical study of the ancient world and engaged with these texts as living scriptures for our respective communities, we trace these Jewish roots in terms of five key themes of Christian supersessionism.

Rather, supersessionism organically develops discourses that are native to the Hebrew Bible and shared with Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism. As Jon D. Levenson puts it, “Nowhere does Christianity betray [i.e., reveal] its Jewish roots more than in its supersessionism.”

Without denying that supersessionism has often had devastating consequences for Jews (and others), we show that the common portrayal of supersessionism as an entirely negative Christian innovation is both historically and theologically inaccurate.

Today, in many Christian spaces, this perspective on supersessionism has become axiomatic. We Are Israel: The Jewish Roots of Christian Supersessionism problematizes this simplistic story.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that supersessionism is the fundamental crux in Jewish-Christian relations. After the Holocaust, many Christian theologians began to interrogate and reject supersessionism as an evil Christian mutation that perverts the Bible and inevitably encourages violence.

“Supersessionism” is an umbrella term for a cluster of Christian theological ideas rooted in the core claim that, to one extent or another, the church has replaced the Jewish people as the party to God’s covenant. In a word, Christians, not Jews, are the true Israel.

Thanks. We can blame the low post count on my children who, it seems, are always home from school for some reason.

I know the publication process is often frustrating for most of us, but this for me at least was an instance where I think the runaround and revision process genuinely resulted in better scholarship.

Each person improved the article, even when one, I think, misunderstood the piece (alas, it was indeed reviewer #2).

Each time I thought it was nearly ready to submit and each time I came back from the presentation knowing that it needed more work. A total of five anonymous reviewers gave me comments on this through the JBL peer review process.

For me, this article is an example of the academic process working. The essay began as a spinoff from a few paragraphs in my dissertation that I hoped I could turn around quickly. I have presented it in several settings since 2021.