Links between Judaism and Christianity

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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From the Jewishness of the New Testament to attempts by 19th- and early 20th-century British Jews to blend in to Christian England, Giles Fraser shows how the two religions have a vexed history but are also surprisingly interconnected in his new book called Chosen. He also looks back at 2011, when the Occupy London took over the steps and surroundings of St Pauls and the resulting division in the church about how to react to this protest movement led him to leave his job and to a crisis of confidence. Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, and David Feldman, Professor of History and Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, join Giles Fraser and Matthew Sweet to explore the degree to which you can emphasise similarities between Christianity and Judaism - what do you gain and what do you lose?

Producer: Eliane Glaser

You can find a playlist of programmes exploring religious belief on the Free Thinking website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mwxlp which includes Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, Howard Jacobson and Bari Weiss on Jewish Identity in 2020 Simon Schama and Devorah Baum on Jewish history and jokes and Frank Skinner, Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi on Writing about Faith

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0:34.5	music, radio, podcasts. On this edition of the Arts and Ideas podcast, Christianity and Judaism,
0:41.2	was their separation slightly less than 1,760 years ago a bit of a mistake?
0:47.2	The Reverend Giles Fraser has a modest proposal to make about millennia of religious doctrine and practice.
0:53.4	So join him, two experts who'll tested ideas,
0:56.4	and me, Matthew Sweet, after this message. Hello, I'm Catherine Tickel, and I'm here to tell you
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