Theological and Ecclesiological Implications of the Recent “Within Judaism” School of New Testament Scholarship

by Geoffrey Ready


I want to begin with a confession of perspective. I am an Orthodox Christian presbyter, the rector of a small mission parish in Toronto and the Director of Orthodox Christian Studies at Trinity College within the University of Toronto. I am also, for the past decade or so, someone who has been reading with sustained attention the work of scholars associated with what is increasingly called the “within Judaism” school of New Testament interpretation. These two things—Orthodox Christian faith and “within Judaism” scholarship—are the lenses through which everything I am going to say here is refracted…

Geoffrey Ready

The V. Rev. Geoffrey Ready directs the Orthodox School of Theology at the University of Toronto, where he teaches liturgy, Biblical studies, and pastoral theology. He studied in Ottawa and at Holy Cross Orthodox School of Theology in Boston and holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto. He served as a priest in Northern Ireland and then in France before returning to Toronto as priest-in-charge of Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Mission, an OCA parish that meets on the University of Toronto campus.

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