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The question of Christianity’s relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever before. While Christianity’s historical failure to appreciate or actively engage Judaism is notorious, Christianity’s even more shoddy record with respect to “pagan” religions is less understood. Christians have inherited a virtually unanimous theological tradition that...

and Jews who did not recognize him as the Messiah. The earliest Christian compositions can be regarded, in fact, as a massive effort to reinterpret Torah in light of the distinctive Christian experiences and convictions connected with Jesus.3 And part of this process of identity formation was a sustained polemic against the Jews who failed to see in Jesus either a Lord or a Messiah.4 Because of the long history of Christian anti-Semitism that fed on such vituperation, and above all because of the
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