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In the Old Testament there is the book of Exodus which describes the Israelites enslavement under the Egyptians and Pharaoh's order to slay first born Jewish males. Also in the New Testament in Matthew, Mark and Luke, King Herod orders the slaying of first born Jewish males.

2007-03-02 11:48:53 · answer #1 · answered by MsE 3 · 0 0

Anti-Semitism is not in the Bible. It was put forward as an Idea by the Middle Ages Church who used it as a reason that it was okay to persecute the Jews in Europe because of the Easter story in which the Jews killed Jesus. Europe used this to further alienate the Jews who already lived in ghettos and seemed to have great amounts of money.

By the end of the Nineteenth Century the idea on anti-semitism was large set aside in most countries accept France Spain and Austria.

2007-03-02 21:00:05 · answer #2 · answered by redgriffin728 6 · 0 0

Let's get real. The question deserves a serious answer.
While in the Old Testament, Antisemitism (I prefer to write it as one word, because to hyphenate it is to suggest that there is something called semitism) is confined to various people doing or plotting things against the Israelites or later the Jews, in the New Testament there is a good deal of it.
First, remember that Jesus was a Galilean. The Galileans had been forcibly converted to Judaism about a hundred years before and were still considered unreliable doctrinally. This explains such statements as 'Can anything good come out of Galilee' and Jesus' own mocking statement, 'A Jew without guile!'
When Jesus was crucified, the Gospel records the Jews as saying, 'The sin be upon us, and on our descendants' - an imprecation as black as Hell. It's there in the Gospel.
Subsequently, Christianity had to define itself against Judaism, and the Acts of the Apostles records various instances of Jews denouncing Christians to the Romans.

2007-03-03 16:15:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The first part of the Bible, known as the Old Testament is the history of the Jews and it contains nothing anti-Semitic. The second part is know as the New Testament and it contains the teachings of Christ. It contains nothing anti-Semitic.

2007-03-02 19:45:31 · answer #4 · answered by RUDOLPH M 4 · 3 0

If you mean examples of antisemitism, it's rampant. All the people hurting the Jews, for example. For example the Babylonians, the Romans, the Egyptians. Start with Exodus and look forward to Revelations.

If you mean the Bible telling us to hate Jews, you won't. It was written by Jews for Jews (with few exceptions in the New Testament) and it encourages the Jewish people to remain faithful to the God of Abraham and to follow the example of the God of Abraham's only son, Jesus Christ.

2007-03-02 21:06:16 · answer #5 · answered by Monc 6 · 0 0

The Bible tells of how the Jews are God's chosen people. Throughout it, God speaks often of how much He loves them.
He says that He will protect them from anyone who wishes them harm, and punish those that stand against them- even in the New Testament.

2007-03-02 19:51:37 · answer #6 · answered by B. W. 1 · 0 0

see above

2007-03-02 19:46:35 · answer #7 · answered by Calvin And Hobbes 3 · 0 0

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