Judaism: From Heresy to Pharisee in Early Medieval Christian Literature
Jonathan Elukin
During the Middle Ages, Christians largely accommodated themselves to small number of Jews who lived amongst them. Augustine (354–430) explained that God had punished after their rejection Jesus by destroying Temple and sending them into exile. Their survival was divinely guaranteed, however, because presence Jews, believed, testified authenticity Scripture fulfillment prophecies upon which Christianity built its faith. The themselves, course, argued never truly rejected his chosen people. By claiming as witnesses, inadvertently accepted Jews' identity descendants biblical children Israel.
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