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Anti-Judaism in early Christianity

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199:, the Christians were "seen as the 'true spiritual Israel' because the Jews had despised and forsaken the law of God and God's holy covenant". Many Roman officials, including Justin, based upon the perception of the Christians as their god's chosen people, advocated for the expansion of Gentile rights in the Roman Empire, while also aiming to drastically reduce the rights the Jews had during that time, believing their claim to legitimacy to be false. 192:
Ambrose "publicly refused him communion until he reversed the governor's sentence." Ultimately, Theodosius agreed with Ambrose and the decision of the governor was overturned. Many scholars believe that instances like this contributed to Christian notions of the Jews as second-class citizens, whose property is worth inherently less than theirs.
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Jews and Christians: the parting of the ways, CE 70 to 135. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999. Page 179. 'The challenge thus posed to Christian NT scholars in particular cannot therefore be ducked... The question we must face, then, is whether such attitudes are already inseparable from the scriptures
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Rabbi Michael J. Cook believes that both contemporary Jews and contemporary Christians need to reexamine the history of early Christianity, and the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect consisting of followers of a Jewish Jesus, to a separate religion often dependent on the tolerance of
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led his followers in the destruction and burning of a local synagogue. Ambrose, upon learning of the local governor of Callinicum's intent to force the bishop responsible to pay for the reconstruction of the synagogue, appealed the sentence to the Emperor. When Theodosius first denied the appeal,
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on which they were based. ... in terms of the present inquiry, Does the attitude to Jews in the post-70 NT documents indicate that the final breach, the decisive parting of the ways between Christianity and (rabbinic) Judaism, has already happened?'
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Historians debate whether or not the Roman government distinguished between Christians and Jews prior to Nerva's modification of the Fiscus Judaicus in 96. From then on, practising Jews paid the tax, Christians did not. Wylen, Stephen M.,
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made through Christ. The presence of this question, often buried deep in the Christian mind, could not fail to cause profound and gnawing anxiety. Anxiety usually leads to hostility.
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loyal to the Roman empire, to understand how the story of Jesus came to be recast in an anti-Jewish form as the Gospels took their final form.
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must include a reexamination of basic theological attitudes toward Jews and the New Testament in order to deal effectively with antisemitism.
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A number of hostile early actions taken by Church leaders against the Jews are believed to have influenced later Christian thought.
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Theological Anti-Semitism in the New Testament", Rosemary Radford Ruether, Christian Century, Feb. 1968, Vol. 85
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The conflict of the church and the synagogue : a study in the origins of antisemitism
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could also be translated "Judaeans", meaning in some cases specifically the Jews from
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In 388, then-Roman Emperor Theodosius the Great was informed that a bishop in
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The Question of Anti-Semitism in the New Testament Writings of the Period.
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Anti-semitism and early Christianity : issues of polemic and faith
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One example of these acts comes from a historical account relating to
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Dabru Emet - A Jewish Statement On Christians And Christianity
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Tikva Frymer-Kensky, David Novak, Peter Ochs, Michael Signer,
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Disinheriting the Jews: Abraham in early Christian controversy
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community. A. Roy Eckardt has asserted that the foundation of
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is sometimes considered as Christianity before 325 when the
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Jews and Christians: The Parting of the Ways, AD 70 to 135
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sentiment in the first three centuries of Christianity;
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Index

Antisemitism in early Christianity
anti-Judaic
the 1st
2nd
3rd centuries
Early Christianity
First Council of Nicaea
Constantine the Great
Jewish Christians
synagogue
Council of Jamnia
Fiscus Judaicus
covenant
new covenant
Gentiles
Greek
Ioudaioi
Judaea
Galilee
Samaria
Antisemitism and the New Testament
New Testament
antisemitism
Christian
antisemitism
Holocaust
repentance
Ambrose, the bishop of Milan.
Callinicum
Justin

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