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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Historical Persecution of Jews
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Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 04:51:49 EST
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In article <2778@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
>> >[Terry Morse on persecution.]
>> 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?
>
>Certainly those early Christians weren't exactly in any positions of power
>to persecute in those days.  They were probably no better off in that
>regard than the Jews were.  It seems to me that the persecution followed
>the rise to power of the church in society.  Therefore it seems kind of
>irrelevant to proclaim "but they didn't persecute from the very beginning"
>when there was no "power to persecute" until much later.  When it was used.
>
>> These questions are probably unanswerable.
>
>Or not.

My questions were about the roots of bigotry, not of persecution.

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