Again, tweren't me.
You may be aware of recent DNA studies that indicate a startlingly high
degree of common ancestry among Jews, by the way. Startled me, anyway,
given the blond hair of my father's family and my own red hair and blue eyes.
At 10:03 PM 9/20/2000 +0100, you wrote:
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>"or that farrago of anti-Semitic nonsense, The Prioress's Tale?" ( 20/09/00)
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>Mark,
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>"As of the 14th Century all Jews were Rabbinic Jews"
>Well, this depends on how you cut it and if you recognise the difference
>between Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. One could say 'as of the late first
>cent. C.E.' all Jews were Rabbinic Jews, but this only goes so far: one
>needs to look at the radical differences between Rabbinic Jewry and Temple
>Jewry and the complex place of Xianity in that nexus ( one could even say
>that the condemnation of the name of X at Javneh constituted, if not created
>Xianity - the question is of the right of the Rabbis to make such a decision
>[ this latter is as good a cause as any for the so-called 'Anti-Semitism'
>( which would be a contradiction in terms) of the N.T., espec. Matt. - the
>which is pure Anti-Rabbinism.)
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>" Few of my ancestors cared much whether they were being slaughtered for
>reasons of blood or belief. In
>practical terms there wasn't a whole lot of difference"
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>Well, in practical terms I'd say it made a whole lot of difference. Given
>the difference in opinions concerning Rabbinic Jews from the Magisterium;
>the Church in general ( the council of Cardinals etc.); the internal
>complexity of the Church Fathers and their being cited in debate; Popular
>sentiment vis-a-vis the Jews ( a g r e a t deal of which was
>pre-Christian); Natural Law; Popular interpretation of the Bible;
>Theologians; Spaniards discoursing about 'blood' and so on and so forth,
>one can hardly take the perspective of an undifferentiated aggressor
>victimising a singular subject so straightforwardly, with Xians on one side
>and Jews on the other [ one would have to go into the application of the law
>of 'nations' in so far as it applied to the Jews - Jews were outside law in
>certain respects ( Usury being one of these) - etc. etc. to make the
>perspective sharper.
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>But that is another list-server!
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>Y'rs
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>ColinGHughes
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