Complex sentence: A commission was then appointed by the king, Christiani being one of its members, to act as censors of the Talmud; and they obliterated all passages which seemed to them to be hostile to Christianity.
Split into simpler sentences: A commission was then appointed by the king, Christiani being one of its members, to act as censors of the Talmud. The commission obliterated all passages which seemed to them to be hostile to Christianity.