Editing Celtic Christianity (section)

===Accusations of Judaizing===
A recurrent accusation levelled against the Irish throughout the Middle Ages is that they were [[Judaizers]] - that they observed certain religious rites after the manner of the Jews.<ref name="flech"/> The belief that Irish Christians were Judaizers can be observed in three main areas: the Easter Controversy, the notion that the Irish practised obsolete laws from the [[Old Testament]] and (not unrelated to this) the view that they adhered too closely to the Old Testament. Quite apart from the intricate theological concerns that underpinned the debate over Easter in early 7th-century Gaul, Columbanus also found himself accused of [[Quartodecimanism]], a heresy whose central tenet was observing Easter on the same date as the eve of the Jewish [[Passover]], namely the fourteenth day of the Jewish lunar month of [[Nisan]]. Although this accusation was raised at a time of heightened political tensions between Columbanus and the Gallic bishops, some historians have cautioned that it ought not be dismissed as a mere ruse because the Gauls may have been genuinely worried about blurring the boundaries between Gallic Christians and their Jewish neighbours.<ref>{{harvnb|Stancliffe|1992|pp=211–12}}</ref> That the Irish practised obsolete Old Testament laws is another accusation that repeats itself a number of times in the early Middle Ages, most famously in the case of the 8th-century Irish charismatic preacher, [[Clement Scotus I]] (fl. 745), who was condemned as a heretic, in part for urging followers to follow Old Testament law in such controversial matters as obliging a man to marry his widowed sister-in-law upon his brother's death.<ref name="Meeder">{{harvnb|Meeder|2011|pp=251–80}}</ref> One example for the Irish tendency to adhere closely to the Old Testament is the ''Collectio canonum Hibernensis'', a late 7th- or early 8th-century Irish canon law collection which was the first text of church law to draw heavily on the Bible, and in particular the Old Testament. In Scotland similar accusations surround the supposed [[Scottish pork taboo|cultural taboo concerning pork]]. The Celtic Church is also thought to have observed the [[Sabbatarianism|seventh day as the Sabbath]].<ref>{{Cite book |last =Flick |first =A. C. |title =The Rise of the Medieval Church |publisher =G. P. Putnam's Sons |year =1909 |location =New York and London |pages=237}}</ref>