Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos; Fasc. 2: Filologia Hebraica, Biblia y judaismo
Angaben zur Quelle:
39,2 (1990) 5-29
Keywords:
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Christianity and antisemitism History
Abstract:
An expanded version of a paper presented at a conference in Granada, February 1989. Analyzes and refutes, one by one, most Christian accusations against the Jews (i.e. deicide), stating that the mythical view of Christian-Jewish relations was elaborated during the 1st-4th centuries out of the Church's need to define itself against Judaism by stressing its own superiority. When the Church acquired political power, it used it against Jews, matching reality to the mythical image of the deicide Jew, punished as a people and individually reduced to a humble and despised existence. The ancient world knew expressions of anti-Judaism, but Christianity initiated antisemitism. The Christian myth about Judaism vilified and demonized Jews throughout the ages. Post-World War II Christian-Jewish dialogue has come to recognize that Christian teachings were at least in part responsible for the propagation of antisemitism.
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