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    The Great Betrayal: Christians and Jews in the First Four Centuries

    By Sheldon W. Liebman

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    This book is an examination of the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect in the first century AD into the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century. It attempts to show (1) that Jesus was born a Jew and died one; (2) that Judaism in the first century was not a rigid, legalistic faith; (3) that Jesus had no reason to repudiate it; (4) that he was killed by the Romans (with the help of the Jewish aristocracy); (5) that he appealed to the Jewish masses in the same way and for the same reasons that other messianic figures did in the first century; (6) that his disciples were also Jews who continued to worship in the Temple and make sacrifices there; (7) that the Jews cannot be said to have rejected Jesus, since they were his only supporters for many years after the Crucifixion; (8) that the Jews had little reason to persecute the early Christians since the latter remained observant Jews; (9) that the New Testament was written, in part, to minimize Jesus’ tie to Judaism; (10) that it is was also written partly to exonerate the Romans and to present Christianity as non-threatening to the Roman Empire; (11) that Christianity underwent a radical transformation under the influence of Hellenism after the first century AD; and (12) that Christians began to believe that their faith had superseded Judaism, which had now become irrelevant and expendable.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheldon W. Liebman
    Release dateFeb 15, 2015
    ISBN9781310066276
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    The Great Betrayal: Christians and Jews in the First Four Centuries
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    Sheldon W. Liebman

    Sheldon W. Liebman is professor emeritus and former chair of the Humanities Department at Wilbur Wright College. Among his thirty-plus scholarly publications are an article in the Oxford University Encyclopedia of American Literature, an essay in Harold Bloom’s Nathaniel Hawthorne, and a study of The Picture of Dorian Gray in the Norton Critical Edition of that novel. He received a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972.

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