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Judeo-Christian Relations StudiedJERUSALEM (AP) - Christians should look beyond their own noses *o get acquainted with their mother religion— Judaism, says Dr, G. Douglas Young. His American Institutefor Holy l^and Studies here is dedicated to just that.Our prime mission is to rive future Christian leaders a chance to see who Jews arc, learn what they believe and what contributions they have made and are making, Young says.He says he views the institute as helping to right the wrongs that the Christian church did to Jews for 2,000 years.”The institute is the only American-operated school of its kind in the Holy City. Located on historic Mt. Zion, it serves graduate scholars or junior year-level students who want to study early Christian history, Old and New Testaments, Jewish thought and modern Israel, archeology and Hebrew.There are about 30 full-time students, mostly Americans, living in. Groups of 50 students come and go for short seminars. Credits earned are transferable to schools in the United States.The nondenominational, nonprofit institute, functioning since 1958, is governed by a board of directors of American businessmen and evangelistic leaders. The school is registered under Israeli law and also charted in the state of Minnesota.Young, a biblical scholar and authority on Semitic culture, isthe founder and president of the institute. He is an American citizen born in Korea of missionary parents.In an interview, he said he was motivated to create the institute during a visit to Israeli Jerusalem in 1956. I found no American institution for Christians and 1 wanted to remedy this,” he said.Combined with this feeling was the anti-Israeli propaganda and anti-Semitism I had seen all over the world,” he continued. The idea struck me as being useful to bring young American Christians over here to tell them about Israel, the Jews, and their relationship to Christianity.”Young, 61, was formerly the dean of the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School near Chicago and a professor of Semitic languages at Shelton College in New York City.Politically and theologically he considers himself a conservative—except on the issue of Israel,” he hastens to add.On that subject he says he becomes a fighter and has even challenged the policies of the World Council of Churches, the French government and the Pope.
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Bryan Sunday Eagle
Bryan, Texas, US
Fri, Feb 11, 1972
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