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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian,net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Historical Persecution of Jews
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 06:37:53 EST
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In article <852@leadsv.UUCP> morse@leadsv.UUCP (Terry Morse) writes:
>It seems to me that Jews have historically been easy marks for
>persecution.  I don't think that the primary reason for this persecution
>is that Judaism runs counter to Christianity.  That is a secondary reason at
>best.

I'll agree in general, but I am curious if the roots of Christian
anti-Semitism go back to the first century CE or not.  Were the
early Christians so annoyed at their twain for not seeing the light
that bigotry developed?  And were the early Christians trying to
disassociate themselves from the disasters that befell the Jews
in 66-70 CE in the Jew-Roman war?

These questions are probably unanswerable.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720