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Richard Lux’s essay, The Land of Israel (Eretz Yisra’el) in Jewish and Christian Understanding, as well as his recent book on the Land of Israel are welcome additions to the library of JewishChristian dialogue, particularly for Christian scholars seeking to understand the deep connection between their faith and its spiritual patrimony in Judaism and in the Jewish people. Serious consideration of the Land of Israel as a theological category has been largely absent from Christian writings, a fact owing primarily to the Church’s long-standing supersessionist teaching that it has itself assumed the mantle of the Jewish people’s role in covenantal history. Logically, when Christianity universalized the covenant between God and the descendants of Abraham, the need for a localized geographic home for the covenant’s human partners became superfluous. Theologically, when the early Church fathers concluded that Jewish exile and humiliation were divine punishments for rejecting Jesus, Jewish homelessness and wandering gained a positive theological valence. The particular status of the Land of Israel was reduced to a remnant of immature theology and an exhausted Jewish spiritual history. (To see how deeply rooted this became in popular Christian culture, see Mark Twain’s comments regarding the “cursed land” of Palestine in The Innocents Abroad.) It was not only Judaism that Christianity claimed to supersede, but also the biblical homeland. Thus Eretz Yisra’el was demeaned, replaced and dehypostasized, managing to linger positively in Christian thought only as metaphor for more spiritual categories.

Jewish Reflections on Richard Lux’s ‘The Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael) in Jewish and Christian Understanding’