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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26327)	11/28/1998 8:41:00 PM
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Both Talmuds, the Palestinian Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud, were completed well after Christianity became the state religion of Rome, the point at which Christian calumnies about the Jews were joined to the power of the state, after 300 A.D. The Babylonian Talmud was completed circa 640 A.D. So it is not true that an ur-hatred of Christians can be traced to a period before the great repressions began once Christianity became the religion of Rome after the conversion of Constantine. Jews did not exercise state power after the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. There was informal conflict between the powerless Christians and the powerless Jews in that period, as might be expected, given the outrageous claims of the Christians-- for example, that the Jews were satanic, and that their religion was now to be understood as subsumed by Christianity. The riots in Alexandria that we have alluded to represented a singular manifestation of this tension. Any evidence, beyond the Alexandrian riots we've mentioned, that the Jews undertook "organized" persecution of Christians in the era preceding Christianity's ascent to state power will be very interesting to see when you produce it. [h.t.--E]

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