Original sentence: " Nevertheless, despite their immeasurable value for historians, the Gospels are not books of history, certainly not in the modern sense, and we cannot fairly expect them to offer an accurate, factual report of historical events."Indeed, they contain "gospel truth., the texts of the Gospels belong to a very different historical context.... Second, not only may we not classify the Gospels as historical writing, but we must also recognize that intellectuals in the classical world did not place the same high value on the accurate recording of historical events that we generally do today.... Third, though they tell of the life of Jesus, which ended around the year 30 C.First, the evangelists, the writers of the Gospels, did not have historical reporting as their goal.George Fox argues that the hostile utterances of rabbis were towards those Christians who did not support Bar Kokhba and was due to anti-Jewish feelings which were caused by Gentile converts to Christianity.Jeremy Cohen writes on the historicity of the New Testament stories:.The standard Christian interpretation of the New Testament account casts the alleged persecution by the Jews as an institutional rejection of Christianity.Three factors underlie this presupposition.Thus, some scholars assert that antisemitism is rooted in the original conflict between Jews and Christians during the formative years of early Christianity.Today, although most Christian churches still consider the New Testament accounts to be factual, they reject the notion of the events providing any legitimate justification for antisemitism
Edited sentence: George Fox argues that the hostile utterances of rabbis were towards those Christians who didn't support Bar Kochba and was due to anti-Jewish feelings which were caused by Gentile converts to Christianity.The standard Christian interpretation of the New Testament account casts the alleged persecution by the Jews as an institutional (or cabalist) rejection of Christianity.Thus, some scholars assert that anti-Semitism is rooted in the original conflict between Jews and Christians during the formative years of early Christianity.Today, although most Christian churches still consider the New Testament accounts to be factual, they reject the notion of the events providing any legitimate justification for anti-Semitism