Aggressors often claim they were acting in self-defense. Hitler, you'll
recall, had a long litany about hos the poor Germans were being oppressed by
the Jews. Most of what we know about early realtionships between Christians
and Jews comes from the New Testament. So it's often a question of how a
Biblical passage is going to be intepreted.
pat
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In a message dated 01/12/2000 2:40:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> a message dated 01/12/2000 12:59:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << I would like to see some historical evidence for Jews acting as
'violent'
> "persecutors" of (early, but how early?) Christians. >>
>
> I believe we are talking very early, approximately the mid-thirties to the
> mid-sixties of the first century. After which time, when both the Jews
and
> Christians moved away (forcibly or otherwise) from Jerusalem, the ever
> volatile relationship between the two subsided although never put to rest.
> Some years ago there was a book called _Faith and Fratricide_ which
detailed
>
> the problems between Jews and early Christians. Sorry, I can't remember
the
>
> author or how the book was received.
>
> By the way, I wholly agree with you that the author was looking for a
> justification for early, if not all, anti-semitism.
>
> mark
>
>
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