Bible Quote by Peter Schäfer

“At the time that the early Gospels were written, the Pharisees and the early Christians were competing for the hearts and minds of their…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“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

“The Bible was written by Jewish people who belonged to a Jewish minority living under the oppression of a succession of massive military superpowers…

— Rob Bell

“The Bible of Jesus of Nazareth, for instance, was Semitic, the earliest utterances and traditions of the Gospel were Semitic.”

— James John Courtenay

“Modern Christians who find Matthew's preoccupation with [Judaism] tedious and even distasteful, should realise that they live in a very different world from that…

— R.T. France

“Jerusalem, How cruel it was, after all, That the geographical center of their faith was not actually located within the confines of the Christian…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“In these centuries when God,...was forging a Christian church so that it might fulfill the longing of a hungry world, He was at the…

— James A. Michener

“The whole traditional civil and moral cult of the Judaism, was inspired and elaborated during the Exile on the model of Babylonian worship and…

— James John Courtenay

It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless,…

— Anonymous

“There exists hardly any other New Testament text that is more unambiguous and firm in Jesus’ mission on earth and his divine origin, indeed…

— Peter Schäfer

“Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by erasing, as…

— Reza Aslan

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before…

— Joseph McCabe