Antisemitism in the New Testament
Mrs. Freudmann has written a very useful and well-researched book. While other authors have pointed out antisemitic aspects of the New Testament, she has substantiated the charge with a verse-by-verse examination of the texts and by adducing a wealth of comparative material from Jewish sources. She has many excellent points to make for the improvement of Christian teaching and the development of friendly Jewish-Christian relations.>>> (Hyam Maccoby)...Her book makes a very substantial contribution to scholarly studies on this very important topic...>>>> (Norman A. Beck)Lillian Freudmann's Antisemitism in the New Testament is an informed, candid, and lucid treatment of a most painful subject that has divided Jews and Christians for centuries...Freudmann's useful work should be read and pondered.>>>> (Berenbaum, Michael)...remarkable. Antisemitism in the New Testament is easily the best work I have seen on this subject and deserves to be read in the Vatican and in all Christian religious colleges and institutions.>>>> (S. Levin)The intended audience is the general public rather than scholars, and the tone is polemical...In a relatively irenic look forward, Freudmann offers suggestions about taking the necessary steps to de-antisemitize the NT, describes anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, and urges that the Christian Scriptures be purged of their anti-Semitic elements.>>> (S. LevinCritical Review)...Mrs. Freudmann has done with a high degree of competence what she sets out to do and her attention both to the anti-Jewish element in the NT and to the Jewish sources which stand over against these elements results in the most thoroughgoing and consistent treatment of this issue with which I am familiar.(Williamson, Clark)Mrs. Freudmann has written a very useful and well-researched book. While other authors have pointed out antisemitic aspects of the New Testament, she has substantiated the charge with a verse-by-verse examination of the texts and by adducing a wealth of comparative material from Jewish sources. She has many excellent points to make for the improvement of Christian teaching and the development of friendly Jewish-Christian relations.(Hyam Maccoby)...Her book makes a very substantial contribution to scholarly studies on this very important topic...(Norman A. Beck)Lillian Freudmann'sAntisemitism in the New Testamentis an informed, candid, and lucid treatment of a most painful subject that has divided Jews and Christians for centuries...Freudmann's useful work should be read and pondered.(Berenbaum, Michael)...remarkable.Antisemitism in the New Testamentis easily the best work I have seen on this subject and deserves to be read in the Vatican and in all Christian religious colleges and institutions.(S. Levin)The intended audience is the general public rather than scholars, and the tone is polemical...In a relatively irenic look forward, Freudmann offers suggestions about taking the necessary steps to "de-antisemitize" the NT, describes anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, and urges that the Christian Scriptures be purged of their anti-Semitic elements.(S. LevinCritical Review)