Antisemitism In Early Christianity
Antisemitism in Early Christianity is a description of anti-Jewish sentiment in the first three centuries of Christianity; Christianity in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd centuries. "Early Christianity" is generally considered as Christianity before 325 when the First Council of Nicaea was convoked by Constantine the Great.
Documents which fall in this period include the New Testament, the Adversus Judaeos literature, and the debate of Justin Martyr with Tyrpho.
The relationship between Christianity and antisemitism has a long history. Anti-Judaism and Anti-Jewish sentiments have been expressed by many Christians over the last 2,000 years, but many other Christians, increasingly in recent years, have condemned these sentiments.
The subject follows on from the origins of Christianity, the Cleansing of the Temple, the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus, the split of early Christianity and Judaism, the circumcision controversy in early Christianity, the Incident at Antioch and conflict with "Judaizers", the persecution of Christians in the New Testament, the relation of Paul the Apostle and Judaism and antisemitism and the New Testament. The subject also relates to the origins of Rabbinic Judaism and Council of Jamnia, Judaism's view of Jesus and Jewish responses to Christianity such as the Curse on Heretics.
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