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Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson This volume delineates the link between Judaism and Christianity, between Old and the New Testaments, and calls Christians to reexamine their Hebrew roots so as to effect a more authentically biblical lifestyle. Buy it

Jews and Christians: Talking Together Click on any link below  for segments of the panel discussion webcast.
Program One Segments Both Jews and Christians are often astonished to learn how much they have in common, in prayer and worship, the bible, and many other ways.	Program Two Segments How a small Jewish sect became a separate religion; facing up to Christianity's role in the historic persecution of Jews; and building bridges of understanding.
1. Why this program? Why now? 2. Why do we need each other? 3. Our sacred scriptures 4. How we pray 5. Jesus the Rabbi, Jesus the Christ 6. Resurrection and the afterlife	7. Parting of the Ways 8. Roots of anti-Semitism 9. The Holocaust 10. How can we talk together? 11. Bridges in the community 12. Bridges in schools and places of worship

Panel Members
Broadcast journalist Mike Maus hosts a panel conversation with Dr. Marvin Wilson, Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, Kenneth A. Kanter, Betty Gamble,  Father Paul D. Lee, and others in this follow-up conversation to the broadcast of the documentary Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith. The Webcast also features additional footage from that documentary.

BETTY GAMBLE
Betty Gamble is an Elder in the Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. She served a local United Methodist congregation in the Covington District for five years and chaired the Faith and Order Section of the Northern Kentucky Interfaith Commission. She currently serves as Associate General Secretary of the General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns. She has lived in the Middle East where she worked for Biblical Resources Study Center in Jerusalem.

KENNETH A. KANTER
Rabbi of Congregation Micah of Nashville, Tennessee, was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. degree in Jewish and American History from Harvard University in 1974. Rabbi Kanter was founding chairman of the Metropolitan Nashville Human Relations Commission, and is now Jewish Chautauqua Society Adjunct Professor at the Vanderbilt Divinity School, president of the Covenant Association, chairman of the NCCJ, chair of the Mayor’s Religion Task force, and President-elect of the Nashville Board of Rabbis. He is a popular lecturer and author on the Jewish contribution to American popular music from the 1840’s to the 1940’s.

FATHER PAUL D. LEE
Fr. Paul Dukhyo Lee is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and director of the diocese's Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and the Office for Continuing Education of the Priests.
Fr. Lee was born in 1955 in Seoul, Korea and completed his basic education there. He holds a Licentiate (STL) and a doctorate in sacred theology (STD) from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (commonly known as Angelicum). Father Lee also serves as President of the North American Korean-Catholic Conference.

AMY-JILL LEVINE
Dr. Levine is Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies and Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University. She has written on such topics as Christian origins, formative Judaism, and the "Historical Jesus," and recently edited a twelve-volume series, the Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature. With characteristic humor she has described herself as a "Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Protestant seminary in the buckle of the Bible Belt."

MIKE MAUS (Host)
Mike Maus is host of a monthly program, The Bible and You, in Cablevision's MagRack series, and has hosted and narrated numerous video productions for the American Bible Society. Mr. Maus is a former chief political correspondent and news anchor for the NBC Radio Network. He has directed the strategic communications work of the National Council of Churches and the American Bible Society. As President of Mike Maus Associates he helps not-for-profit organizations communicate more effectively.

MARVIN R. WILSON
The two hour video documentary, Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith, is based on the Dr. Wilson's book, Our Father Abraham: The Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith. Dr. Marvin R. Wilson is the Harold J. Ockenga Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College, Wenham, Mass. His Ph.D. is from Brandeis University in the field of Semitic and ancient Near Eastern Studies. In 1971 he joined the Gordon faculty where he currently teaches Old Testament, Hebrew, Jewish history and culture, and modern Judaism.