Judaism Quote by Elaine Pagels

“But what made Christians especially dangerous to the Roman order was their refusal to pay what Romans regarded as ordinary respect to their Roman…

— Elaine Pagels

“It is no great hermeneutic feat to recognize that Rome crucified Jesus because of His claim to be king. The charge was posted over…

— Christopher Gorton

“Only the Jews, of all the nations under Roman rule, had won the right to separate their political obligations from religious ones, to obey…

— Elaine Pagels

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the…

— John Shelby Spong

“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic circles, if…

— Dr. Teresa Morgan

“Judaism was a legal religion in the Roman Empire; Christianity was not until the first Christian emperor ascended the throne in the fourth century…

— Norman F. Cantor

We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins,…

— Franklin Graham

“Venerable the scorn of the Jews for the Ishmaelites may have been; but it was nothing like so savage as their loathing for the…

— Tom Holland

“Why, then, were Jews allowed to live among Christians? The answer dates back to the teachings of St. Augustine (see Chapter 2). He maintained…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of biological, social…

— Wilhelm Reich

“pastors throughout the countryside around Rome had reminded their parishioners that Jesus was a Jew in order to coax them into opening their doors.…

— Amy Harmon

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on…

— Monica Bellucci