Title:

"IN MY DEEPEST DEPTHS"

DIABOLISATION OF THE JEWS IN GREEK ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE
FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE EIGHTH CENTURY
ESSAY AND SELECTED TEXTS
Contents:
Essay
I. Introduction
II. Satan, a son of God in the Old Testament: the loyal and
conscientious official of the Everlasting
III. The fall of the Watchers following Azazael and Semjasa: the
biography of Evil in the apocalypses of Enoch
IV. The Book of Jubilees: A not insignificant episode, featuring Mastema,
chief of the evil spirits
V. New name and new emphases: The Qumran community in the realm
of Belial
VI. Diabolisation of the Jews in the New Testament: possible
interpretations of the relevant passages
i. The Devil in the New Testament: outline stressing only the aspects
of relevance
ii. Brief analysis of John 8:44, with a question mark at the end
iii. Analysis of Revelation 2:9; 3:9
iv. /a The assembly of Jews of the synagogue of Satan
iv. / b A close reading revealing Judaising Christians in the
background
VII. The Jews are demons: unification of the rhetoric of diabolisation
and demonisation and its use against the Jews in 4th century Antioch
i. Satanisation and demonisation in the 2nd to 3rd centuries
ii. Demonisation of the Jews before Saint John Chrysostom and then
in his writings
VIII. Dialogues in the vestibule of Hell: Christian experiments with
dramatisation and the further development of the diabolisation of the
Jews
i. Detour to the politeia
ii. Another, special aspect of the threat felt by the church: the
dramatic aspect
Selected texts (translations from the Greek with introduction and
notes):
- The destruction of us all Saint John Chrysostom and the Jews
First Adversus Iudaeos homily (Extracts)
- And who is the father of the Jews? The devil. Leontius, Presbyter of
Constantinople and the Jews

[Homily of] Our holy father, Leontius, Presbyter of Constantinople On

Holy Easter
- The topos of the descent of Christ into Hell, the Jews and Romanos
the Melodist
Hymn 37.
- In my deepest depths Pseudo-Eusebius of Alexandria and the Jews
On the Devil and Hell
On the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ on the third day (Extract)
- Lazarus and the Jews John of Euboea and the everyday
demonisation of the Jews
[Homily of] Saint John of Eu[b]oea On the fourth day of Lazarus
- Bibliography