You are cordially invited to a book launch event co-sponsored by The Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel and The Congregation of Notre-Dame de Sion of:

THE SEPARATION OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY FROM JUDAISM

A book by Marianne Dacy

To take place in the presence of the author, on Monday September 6, 2010 | 27 Elul 5770 | 27 Ramadan 1431 At 17:00 at ICCI's Educational Center 43a Emek Refaim St., Jerusalem

On the program

• Introduction: Dr. Debbie Weissman, co-vice-chairperson of ICCI and President of ICCJ
• Greetings: Ms. Peta Pellach, Educational Director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute
• Remarks: Rabbi Raymond Apple, former rabbi of the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia, member of the board of ICCI
• Response: Dr. Marianne Dacy, author
• We will also raise a toast for the new Jewish Year.

Please confirm your participation with Rakheli Hever at communications(at)icci.org.il 

About the Author

Marianne Dacy is a Sister of Our Lady of Sion, secretary of the Australian Council of Christians and Jews, and runs the Archive of Australian Judaica at the University of Sydney. She is editor of Pathways to Understanding, coeditor of Feasts and Fasts: A Festschrift in Honour of Alan David Crown, and author of Let Us Rejoice: The Jewish Roots of Christian Feasts in addition to numerous published articles. Dr. Dacy studied at Melbourne University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she holds an MPhil and PhD from Sydney University and a Bachelor of Divinity.  

About the book

In the wake of the Holocaust and in seeking to understand how the relationship between Judaism and Christianity deteriorated over the course of two millennia, this book examines the origins of the conflict, taking on the larger relationship and showing how the separation evolved over time. The author pinpoints two pervasive issues that impelled the separation: the relationship of the early church to Jewish law and the increasing divinization of Jesus. She also reveals the ways Judaism and Christianity continued to be related.