The Great Betrayal: Christians and Jews in the First Four Centuries
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This book is an examination of the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect in the first century AD into the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century. It attempts to show (1) that Jesus was born a Jew and died one; (2) that Judaism in the first century was not a rigid, legalistic faith; (3) that Jesus had no reason to repudiate it; (4) that he was killed by the Romans (with the help of the Jewish aristocracy); (5) that he appealed to the Jewish masses in the same way and for the same reasons that other messianic figures did in the first century; (6) that his disciples were also Jews who continued to worship in the Temple and make sacrifices there; (7) that the Jews cannot be said to have rejected Jesus, since they were his only supporters for many years after the Crucifixion; (8) that the Jews had little reason to persecute the early Christians since the latter remained observant Jews; (9) that the New Testament was written, in part, to minimize Jesus’ tie to Judaism; (10) that it is was also written partly to exonerate the Romans and to present Christianity as non-threatening to the Roman Empire; (11) that Christianity underwent a radical transformation under the influence of Hellenism after the first century AD; and (12) that Christians began to believe that their faith had superseded Judaism, which had now become irrelevant and expendable.
Sheldon W. Liebman
Sheldon W. Liebman is professor emeritus and former chair of the Humanities Department at Wilbur Wright College. Among his thirty-plus scholarly publications are an article in the Oxford University Encyclopedia of American Literature, an essay in Harold Bloom’s Nathaniel Hawthorne, and a study of The Picture of Dorian Gray in the Norton Critical Edition of that novel. He received a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972.
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