[malakhi]

Of course, for a people who "loathed" Jews, they managed to retain all of the narratives and identiy of Jesus as a Jew intact.

There are plenty of examples of anti-Jewish rhetoric in the Christian scriptures. Almost as if a philosemitic core of material was written down and edited from a very different viewpoint.

Remember, the gospels were written after Paul's epistles.

[SoothingDave]

Of course, for a people who "loathed" Jews, they managed to retain all of the narratives and identiy of Jesus as a Jew intact.

There are plenty of examples of anti-Jewish rhetoric in the Christian scriptures.

Example?

Almost as if a philosemitic core of material was written down and edited from a very different viewpoint.

None of which addresses the fact, that the name of "Jesus" was not put forth to hide his Jewishness. And that the narratives in the Gospels leave us with no ooption other than knowing that Jesus was a Jew. He had to be, to fulfill Scripture.

References to the leaders who turned Jesus in, or to those who persecuted the early Church are not to be taken as indictments of an entire people.

SD

[RobbyS]

There is a range in attitudes. John is the least sympatheric toward the Jews. Interestingly he was also least sympathetic toward the leadership of the Twelve."