This verse and others gave rise to the false stereotype, common in parts of Christian Europe, that Jews had cloven hoofs and horns (Michelangelo’s horned Moses added support).
In John’s Gospel, Jesus refers to the “Jews” (Greek: Ioudaioi) as being “from your father, the devil” ( John 8:44). Matthew’s insistence that “all the people” (that is, all the Jewish people) shouted to Pilate, “Let be crucified.… His blood be on us and on our children” ( Matt 27:25) led to the Christian teaching that all Jews are Christ-killers (the Roman Catholic Church rejected this view in 1965 with the publication of Nostra Aetate, and other church groups have followed this lead). That New Testament verses have been interpreted as anti-Jewish is beyond doubt. Like determining whether Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” is anti-Jewish, Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is racist, or Rushdie’s Satanic Verses is anti-Muslim, answers differ, depending on readers and definitions.
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Whether the New Testament is anti-Jewish, and even how to define anti- Judaism-as a belief system, a set of practices, communal identity, et cetera-remain debated. Luke 2:21 mentions Jesus’s circumcision Paul’s delineates his Jewish credentials: “circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews as to the law, a Pharisee…’ ( Phil 3:5). Mary and Joseph, Peter and Paul, Mary Magdalene and Jesus himself, are Jews. Given that definition, the New Testament is not antisemitic. Antisemitism is usually defined as a racist view that regards Jews as a distinct people, driven toward greed, political domination, and perversion, such that even converting to Christianity cannot erase this biological taint.
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