Editing Antisemitism in Christianity (section)

===Marcion of Sinope===
In the early second century AD, the heretic [[Marcion of Sinope]] ({{circa|85|160 AD}}) declared that the Jewish God was a different God, inferior to the Christian one,<ref name="Nicholls1993">{{cite book |last1=Nicholls |first1=William |title=Christian Anti-Semitism: A History of Hate |date=1993 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |location=Lanham, Maryland; Boulder, Colorado; New York City; Toronto, Ontario; and Oxford, England |isbn=0-87668-398-7 |pages=178–187 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBAAitrH9vMC&q=Marcion&pg=PA179 }}</ref> and rejected the Jewish scriptures as the product of a lesser deity.<ref name="Nicholls1993"/> Marcion's teachings, which were extremely popular, rejected Judaism not only as an incomplete revelation, but as a false one as well,<ref name="Nicholls1993"/> but, at the same time, allowed less blame to be placed on the Jews personally for having not recognized Jesus,<ref name="Nicholls1993"/> since, in Marcion's worldview, Jesus was not sent by the lesser Jewish God, but by the supreme Christian God, whom the Jews had no reason to recognize.<ref name="Nicholls1993"/>

In combating Marcion, orthodox apologists conceded that Judaism was an incomplete and inferior religion to Christianity,<ref name="Nicholls1993"/> while also defending the Jewish scriptures as canonical.<ref name="Nicholls1993"/>