Bath Houses Sacramento

As the Holocaust disappeared from the Bible

two important messages that concern the relationship between Christians and Jews are circulating in the English speaking world, the word Holocaust future is no longer used in the main Catholic-Bible edition of the USA. And Pope John Paul speaks in the second part of his Jesus book, which appears next week, the Jews free from the age-old accusation of collective guilt for the death of Jesus Christ.

Holocaust is well known, the Latinized version of a Greek word for "holocaust". It was broadcast in the early forties for the mass murder of the German Nazis used against the Jews. In 1979, the hitherto almost unknown in the German language word by the eponymous TV series well known in this country. It is now established as a term for the extermination of European Jews, despite the fact that Jews continue to use the word Holocaust.

In German the word was unknown, because Luther translated the Old Testament directly from Hebrew and not from the Greek Septuagint translation of the Bible or the Latin Vulgate. He translated the original terms and KALIL olah with fire or whole offering.

The New American Bible Holocaust other hand, was present today, although this was largely translated from the original languages. That is now changing according to the will of a commission of about 50 scientists belonging to all faiths and a committee of Roman Catholic bishops, who since 1994 had a revision of the New American Bible text thought. Holocaust 'm going to do by most people with the mass murder of Jews in name, states in the ground . In the new U.S. Catholic Bible instead now burnt offerings what the German holocaust equivalent. This is to clarify the original positive meaning of the ritual.

Benedict XVI. Photo: Tadeusz Górny

The language change have fallen victim to the words booty and cereals. The former, which means now in America in a sexually explicit meaning buttocks was carried spoils of war replaced. And cereals recalls become too much of cereal grains, wheat, therefore loads are now referred to grain.

A whole other cleanup Christian-Jewish misconceptions makes Pope Benedict in his second Jesus book, released worldwide next week. In it he speaks of the Jews as a people completely free of any blame in the death of Jesus Christ - the accusation was well known in the past 2000 years, the root of all Christian-Jewish hostility and the pretext for many pogroms. The demand for Jesus' execution had been raised only by parts of the former aristocracy and followers of the Temple resistance fighter Barabbas, he writes In his book, from the Vatican on Wednesday released parts in advance. In no case were the pronouncements of the Gospels a "racist nature," emphasizes the Pope. "The real group of the prosecutor were contemporary temple districts," it says in the 10th March appears, the second part of the present three volumes Jesus book. On the occasion of the amnesty that was granted before the Jewish Passover festival, had "the mass of supporters of Barabbas" supervenes. The Pope, who has also served under his real To Joseph Ratzinger published a scientist stressed further that Jesus was a Jew and his entire original congregation was made up of Jews.

German media have previously reported on this aspect of the new pope book barely. But in America, his statement has already been a "huge step forward" welcomed. Elan Steinberg, the Vice-President of the American Association of Holocaust survivors told the news agency Reuters : "This Pope has declared categorically that the Bible duck, were Jews were the killers of Christ, a great theological lie, and this approach . Is very welcome, given the setbacks that we have seen in recent years, "Steinberg is expected to include allude to the rehabilitation of the Holocaust-denying heretic bishop Richard Williamson

But honestly. Should Except Mel Gibson's statement Pope's no surprise really. The Hollywood star had indeed held in 2004 in his film "The Passion of the Christ" yet the old stereotypes of the Jewish Christ-killers. But in the whole of science is now there is no doubt anymore that the Romans solely responsible for the crucifixion of Christ were. The occupation forces and their governor Pontius Pilate would have most certainly not be purely talk of "Temples of the aristocracy" in their jurisdiction. On behalf of all recent publications on the subject was "The process of Jesus from a Jewish perspective" called by Chaim Kohn. As a Catholic theological proclamation and as an adjustment of the Catholic-Jewish relations like the statement of the Pope to be sensational - it is scientifically considered in the light of historical Jesus research - a very old hat.