Title: Goldhagen's New & Improved Definition of Anti-Semitism
Product review: Many other reviewers have documented the incredible number of factual errors or mis-statements by Daniel Goldhagen. My comment is rather on his preposterous caricature of Christianity, Catholicism and the scriptures which permeates this work. Among the sections of his diatribe that will give you pause is his count of anti-semitic verses in the Gospels. Most who have read the Gospels will be aware of verses that make you uncomfortable but Goldhagen has the count up to 310! anti-semitic verses. When Jesus or John the Baptist (both Jews by the way)criticize Pharisee or Sadducee or other group that constitutes anti-semitism in Goldhagen's book. Hence by his definition any Jew (such as an Essene) who criticizes any other Jewish individual or group that constitues anti-semitism. By this standard I would suppose all of the Prophets were also anti-semites.
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