An attitude of repentance and working to teach others to read scripture in a way that is not anti-Jewish, as Faydra Shapiro mentions
I would like to know more clearly what Faydra Shapiro meant by “reading scripture in a way that is not anti-Jewish.” From the examples she provided in this course, it would seem merely to ignore the (many) passages of Scripture, in both Testaments, that repeatedly and explicitly depict the Jewish people as willfully rebellious to their own national God, to the befuddlement of all the other nations, even to the point of turning Him over to a pagan people for crucifixion.
In one specific example, Shapiro asserted that Matthew 27:25 (“All the people answered, ‘Let his blood be on us and our children!'”) must not be interpreted to mean that Jews inherit blood guilt by reason of deicide. That is very well, but she does not provide an alternate explanation for the apparently unsettling implications of this passage. How then should we interpret this verse of inspired scripture?
