Christ Killers

by Jeremy Cohen

"Christians believe that Christ's death redeems and forgives. Yet the same blood shed on the cross has been used to stain Jews with lasting, incomparable guilt. The gospel narratives of the Passion cast the Jews as responsible, directly and indirectly, for the death of the Son of God. The stigma of 'Christ killer'--the notion that all Jews, at all times and in all places, share in the collective responsibility for the Crucifixion--has plagued Jews ever since and is the source of much Christian anti-Semitism. Jeremy Cohen traces the Christ-killer myth from ancient times to the present day,...

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