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From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism - Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History (Paperback)
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From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism - Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History (Paperback)
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From its earliest days, Christianity has viewed Judaism and Jews
ambiguously. Given its roots within the Jewish community of
first-century Palestine, there was much in Judaism that demanded
Church admiration and praise; however, as Jews continued to resist
Christian truth, there was also much that had to be condemned.
Major Christian thinkers of antiquity - while disparaging their
Jewish contemporaries for rejecting Christian truth - depicted the
Jewish past and future in balanced terms, identifying both
positives and negatives. Beginning at the end of the first
millennium, an increasingly large Jewish community started to
coalesce across rapidly developing northern Europe, becoming the
object of intense popular animosity and radically negative popular
imagery. The portrayals of the broad trajectory of Jewish history
offered by major medieval European intellectual leaders became
increasingly negative as well. The popular animosity and the
negative intellectual formulations were bequeathed to the modern
West, which had tragic consequences in the twentieth century. In
this book, Robert Chazan traces the path that began as
anti-Judaism, evolved into heightened medieval hatred and fear of
Jews, and culminated in modern anti-Semitism.
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