Confronting antisemitism in Christianity Islam and Judaism This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian Muslim and even today’s secular cultural and religious memories. This volume explores how antisemitic religious symbol systems can play a key role in the construction of group identities Frontmatter Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Antisemitic Positions in Christian Holy Scriptures: The Idea of Israel’s Election and its Challenge for New Testament Authors and for their Readership “Children of the Devil”: John 8:44 and its Early Reception Anti Jewish Polemic and Jewish Bible Interpretation: Two Examples from Origen and Ephrem the Syrian Scholarship and the Blood Libel: Past and Present Is the Qur’an “Antisemitic” The Position of the Jews in Egypt and Syria in the Late Middle Ages The Impact of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Discovery of the “Original” Version of the Ten Commandments upon Biblical Scholarship: The Myth of Jewish Particularism and German Universalism The Interpretation of Second Temple Judaism as “Spätjudentum” in Christian Biblical Scholarship The National Socialist Bible: “Die Botschaft Gottes”: Theological Legitimation of Antisemitism Christian Antisemitism in Biblical Studies: Two Examples Against the Mainstream: Muhammad Abduh’s Reading of Q1:7 and its Implications for Current Muslim Jewish Relations The Dead Sea Scrolls and Antisemitism: Past Results and Future Possibilities Antisemitism Christianity and the Churches in Europe Antisemitism and Protestant Churches: A Quest for Reform American Christianity Jews and Israel: Antisemitism and Faith Islamic Antisemitism: Jews in the Qur’an Reflections of European Antisemitism Political Anti Zionism: Common Codes and Differences Modern Antisemitism in Iran: Old Themes and New Trends “If the Scorpion Comes back We will Wait for it with a Shoe”: Sheikh Yūsuf al Qaraḍāwī’s Theo Political Response to Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration Editorial Board List of Contributors Acknowledgements