This book, combining detailed academic scholarship with a deeply felt and expressed empathy for the uncompromising theological anti-Judaism (though not anti-Semitism) of Karl Barth, is a significant and unique contribution to Barthian studies as well as to the ongoing Jewish-Christian ""dialogue"" which often blurs the distinctions and outright antagonism displayed by classical Christian theology toward Judaism and the phenomenon of Jewish suffering and survival... Katherine Sonderegger traces the development of Barth's commitment to the integrity of Christian self-description. In the process, she explores the conservation of the Church's theological past that gives Barth's thought its anti-Judaic character and his christological concentration that makes Jesus the Jew the foundation for Christian opposition to anti-Semitism and Naziism. She analyzes Church Dogmatics as well as the second edition of Romans, focusing on Barth's exegesis of the types prophet and pharisee