Complex sentence: On the issue of the Jews, Bauer's attitude toward the Jewish writers of the first century, Philo and Josephus, was one of open admiration that considered Jewishness in a pure condition, as a nation next to other nations.
Split into simpler sentences: On the issue of the Jews, Bauer's attitude toward the Jewish writers of the first century, Philo and Josephus, was one of open admiration. That considered Jewishness in a pure condition, as a nation next to other nations.