William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: npub1ljl4q…cd8c8 When I read the Christian gospels, I always keep in mind that they ...

npub1ljl4q50p2hqu7dg2su3frhnwz058drqs8xga6n3h2zj4fnve2gyqjcd8c8 (npub1ljl…d8c8) When I read the Christian gospels, I always keep in mind that they were composed at a point of divergence of the church, as it came into being, from the Jewish community in which it was born. That divergence produced conflict and it caused the gospel writers to depict Jewish leaders and practices in a negative light, embedding antisemitism right in the foundational texts of Christianity — which have to be read with awarenesss of their historical context and with scholarly tools.