Editing Antisemitism in Christianity (section)

===Recent studies of antisemitism in the New Testament===
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Professor Lillian C. Freudmann, author of ''Antisemitism in the New Testament'' ([[University Press of America]], 1994), has published a detailed study of the description of Jews in the New Testament and the historical effects that such passages have had in the Christian community throughout history. Similar studies of such verses have been made by both Christian and Jewish scholars, including Professors Clark Williamson (Christian Theological Seminary), [[Hyam Maccoby]] (The Leo Baeck Institute), Norman A. Beck (Texas Lutheran College), and [[Michael Berenbaum]] (Georgetown University). Most rabbis feel that these verses are anti-Semitic, and many Christian scholars in America and Europe have reached the same conclusion.

Another example is [[John Dominic Crossan]]'s 1995 book, titled ''Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus''. Crossan writes: "The passion-resurrection stories... have been the seedbed of Christian anti-Judaism. And without that Christian anti-Judaism, lethal and genocidal European anti-Semitism would have been impossible or at least not widely successful. What was at stake in those passion stories in the long-haul of history, was the Holocaust."{{sfn|Cohen|2007|p=20-21}}

Some biblical scholars have also been accused of holding anti-Semitic beliefs. [[Bruce J. Malina]], a founding member of [[The Context Group]], has come under criticism for going as far as to deny the Semitic ancestry of modern Israelis. He then ties it back to his work on first-century cultural anthropology.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Myles |first=Robert |author2=James Crossley |date=Dec 2012 |title=Biblical Scholarship, Jews and Israel: On Bruce Malina, Conspiracy Theories and Ideological Contradictions |url=http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/myl368013.shtml |journal=The Bible and Interpretation}}</ref>