Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism, and Anti-Paganism in the Jewish and Christian Bibles https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/religion-holidays/2024/01/anti-semitism-philo-semitism-and-anti-paganism-in-the-jewish-and-christian-bibles/

January 22, 2024 | Jon D. Levenson
About the author: Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the author of Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Library of Jewish Ideas; Princeton University Press).

In a 1984 essay, Jon D. Levenson compared the Hebrew Bible’s depiction of idol worshippers with the New Testament’s descriptions of “scribes” and “Pharisees”—two groups whom later Christian readers took as a synecdoche for Jews. He revisits the article in a conversation with Jared Thomasson that then moves on to discuss anti-Semitism, the state of academic biblical studies, and much else. (Audio, 62 minutes.)

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