Is The Gospel of John Anti-Semitic?
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
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The History of Anti-Semitism
In Nazi Germany, if you were born of Jewish blood, it didn't matter what your religion was. You could be a practicing Roman Catholic with parents who had converted to Catholicism, but you were Semitic. And so since you were a Semite, it's off to the camps. So anti-Semitism is the understanding of Jews as a race with reinfere characteristics independently of their religion. This doesn't get anything like that in the New Testament at all or throughout the ages,. through the Middle Ages, it's a modern phenomenon.
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