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Here's an interesting link on this subject, and an excerpt.
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...The New Testament, t[h]ough, has pages of anti-Jewish calumny. "The New Testament
contains 102 references to the Jews of [the] most degrading and malevolent kind,"
wrote Dagobert Runes, "thereby creating in the minds and hearts of the Christian
children and adults ineradicable hatred toward the Jewish people."
In the Gospels, Jewish leaders, priests, scribes, and Pharisees play the role of
incorrigible villains. Depicted as cold and heartless formalists, they appear pious
outside but seethe with treachery inside. Jesus labels them hypocrites, deceivers, even
murderers - words later used to help formulate a theology of anti-Semitism. "Nowhere
is this theological anti-Judaism more apparent," writes Princeton religious historian
John G. Gager, "than in the dialogue between Jesus and the Pharisees in {John} 8."
Here, after telling Jewish leaders that they are not the true children of Abraham, and
accusing them of plotting His murder, Jesus says, "Ye are of your father the devil, and
the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning" (verse 44).... |
