Interfaith Group Targets Anti-Jewish Phrases
A national interfaith group wants to remove what it says are anti-Jewish phrases from a handful of children’s Bibles.
The Philadelphia-based American Interfaith Institute is targeting Bible publishers across the country, including Zondervan, Eerdmans and Baker Book House.
“Our sole motive in this is to help rebuild bridges between Christians and Jews,” said Irvin Borowsky, who founded the institute 18 years ago.
Marvin Olasky, an evangelical Christian activist, called the Bible revision effort a misguided attempt at political correctness.
Borowsky countered: “We’re concentrating on children’s Bibles because most of them are not direct translations of the Bible. They’re stories rewritten for children from the Bible.”
At the core of the debate is the claim that Jews killed Jesus, an assertion that Roman Catholic and most mainline Protestant churches have rejected since the 1960s.
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