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Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online

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Overview

About this database

Jewish - Christian relations can look back on more than half a century of striking achievements. There are now initiatives and centers all over the world addressing fundamental issues. The time has come for a comprehensive Encyclopedia of Jewish - Christian Relations. International experts at the cutting edge of their discipline summarize in two hundred entries more than two thousand years of Jewish - Christian interaction, assess the achievements of dialogue and provide joint perspectives and new avenues for the future.

EJCR covers a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to theological concepts (e.g., Christology, Excommunication) spiritual and religious practices (e.g., Prayer, Blessing), ritual (Circumcision, Baptism, Dietary Laws), geographic topics (Ashkenaz, Middle East), denominational concepts (Karaites, Reform Judaism) and political and historical issues (Zionism, Antisemitism). The arts play a role as well, looking at medieval depictions of the ‘Jews’ sow’ or typologies such as ‘Synagogae/Ecclesia’ depictions or the ‘wise and the foolish virgins’.

The EJCR is thus a project which continues the tradition of interreligious relations within Judaism and Christianity by developing a comprehensive and fundamental scholarly/academic work which documents the current state of research and serves as the standard reference work for further research projects in the area of Jewish-Christian relations. It aims at setting the firm basis for any work in Jewish-Christian relations in the future built on the irrevocable presupposition of mutual respect at eye level. As such the EJCR serves also as a contribution to establish Jewish-Christian relations as an area of research and studies in its own right. A synthesis is provided of the discussions in Jewish-Christian dialogue with challenges clearly marked for each theology because of conclusions drawn in this dialogue.

The database will consist of approximately 200 entries.

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Your Benefits

  • Foundational work in 200 entries: Two thousand years of Jewish-Christian interaction
  • Updated twice per year
  • Joint perspectives and new avenues for the future
  • Target readership: Scholars, academics, students
  • EJCR will be also available in a print version

Supplementary Materials

Editorial

Editorial

EJCR Chief Editors:

Walter Homolka (University of Potsdam, School of Jewish Theology, and Abraham Geiger Kolleg; inactive as of May 2022), Rainer Kampling (Free University of Berlin), Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt University), Christoph Markschies (Humboldt University), Peter Schäfer (Berlin), and Martin Thurner (LMU University Munich).

EJCR Advisory Board:

Anna Sapir Abulafia (University of Oxford), Michael Berkowitz (University College London), William Campbell (University of Wales Trinity Saint David Lampeter), Philip Cunningham (Saint Josef’s University), Klaus Herrmann (Free University of Berlin), Uri Kaufmann (Synagoge Essen), Edward Kessler (University of Cambridge), Daniel Krochmalnik (University of Potsdam), Ruth Langer (Boston College), Sara Lipton (Stony Brook University), David Nirenberg (University of Chicago), David Novak (University of Toronto), John Pawlikowski (Catholic Theological Union), Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), and Israel Yuval (Hebrew University).


EJCR Executive Editor:

Kathy Ehrensperger

ehrensperger@geiger-edu.de


EJCR Editorial Office:

Juni Hoppe
Abraham Geiger Kolleg
c/o Universität Potsdam
Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 2
14469 Potsdam, Germany

ejcr-office@degruyter.com

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Updates

Updates

Last updated on 17.11.2023.

Update Frequency

Twice a year (spring/autumn)

Search Help

Search Help

Here you will find instructions for searching in the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online and explanations of the individual search functions.

Search

You have two different options for searching.

Search form

The search form allows you to search using various search criteria. To do so, select the appropriate criterion in the search field and enter your search term(s) in the search field. The following search criteria are available:

  1. Full Text: Searches in all entries for the entered terms. Finds all entries that contain all searched terms and therefore returns the most results. For a more specific search, the other search criteria are more suitable.

    The following operators can be used in the search field:
    • *: Added to a string. Searches for entries including all terms that match the searched string with any addition.
    • AND: Searches for entries including all the terms connected by this operator (default search function).
    • OR: Searches for entries including at least one of the terms connected by this operator.
    • NOT: Searches for entries including the first, but not the second of the terms connected by this operator.

    These operators can be combined with each other.

  2. Title: Finds all entries whose titles contain all searched terms. This search criterion can be used to search specifically for entries for particular terms. Search with truncation does not work at the moment.
  3. Author: Finds all entries with authors of the searched name. Suggests up to 15 matching author names in alphabetical order as you type. This search criterion can be used to search for entries by specific authors.
  4. Publication Year: Select Exact to search for a single year, or Range to search for a range of years. Finds all entries that have been published electronically in this year or range of years.
  5. Bibliography: Finds all entries whose bibliography contains all searched terms. This search criterion can be used to search for specific sources or their titles, authors, etc.
  6. Entry language: Select a language from the drop-down menu. Finds all entries which are written in this language. Only English language is available for EJCRO.

Please note: The search is not case sensitive.

You have the option to apply several search criteria at the same time. To do this, click on "Add row" in the search form. This creates a second search field in which you can set another search criterion (or else the same one). You can create as many additional search fields as you like.
If you use more than one search field, the search will find all entries that match all search criteria ("Search for all of these terms"). Instead, you can also select "Search for any of these terms" above the search fields, which will cause the search to find all entries that match at least one of the searched criteria.
By clicking on "Add NOT" you create a search field to which you can assign a search criterion. Terms entered in this search field will be excluded from the search. You can add this search field as often as you like.
By combining the above functions, you are able to perform very specific searches.

Example

You want to search the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online for all entries that mention the word "Egypt" and were published between “2020” and “2022”. However, you want to exclude entries by the author “Alan T. Levenson” from the search. For this you use the search form as follows:

  1. Create a second search field via "Add row".
  2. Select the search for "all of these terms" (default option).
  3. In the first search field, select the search criterion Full Text and enter the search term "Egypt".
  4. In the second search field, select the search criterion Publication Year, click on “Range” and enter “2020” and “2022” in the two search fields.
  5. Create a third search field via "Add NOT". This is marked with a "NOT".
  6. Select the search criterion Author in this search field and enter the name “Alan T. Levenson”.
  7. After clicking on "Search" you will see 10 out of 25 hits in the results list.

Browse

The browse button allows you to see all entries of this database. The results list of a browse search can be further searched via the search form as described above.

Results list

The results that match your search are listed on one or more pages. The number of search results as well as the search criteria can be found above the results list.

Each search result consists of the title of the entry, author(s) if existent, access information, entry type, online publication date (print publication date in brackets, if applicable), the cover of the database as well as a button to download the PDF ("Download PDF"), if available, and a text preview showing relevant text passages and highlighting the searched term in yellow (only for Full Text search criterion).

You can access a search result by clicking on the title or cover of the database. If you do not have access to the database, please log in first.

The search results are sorted by relevancy (frequency and weighting of the searched terms). You can also sort by date ("New to old" or "Old to new") or by title ("A to Z" or "Z to A").
Furthermore, instead of the default 10 results per page, you can also display 20, 50 or 100 results per page.

The search results can be further restricted under "Filter Results". Various filter options are available for this:

  1. Access: This option filters the search results according to who can access them. By default, "All content" is found. It is possible to filter by "Licensed content", "Open Access", "Publicly available" as well as "All available content".
  2. Publication Year
  3. Entry language

All filters can be combined with each other. Filtering by certain filter options excludes further certain filter options if there are no entries which match both options.

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