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and I'll emphasize later in the lecture today,
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but Matthew has also been the source
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of some of the worst Christian anti-Semitism.
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Precisely by portraying Jesus as rejecting the Law of Moses,
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in much of Christian interpretation,
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and substituting his own law that's Christian anti-Semitism.
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Notice it's from--as I said it's from Matthew
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that you get the idea that Pharisees are all hypocrites,
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and then that gets transferred to being that all Jews are hypocrites.
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You get the idea in Christianity traditionally that
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Jesus rejected the Law because that's legalism.
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The Jews are all legalistic and we Christians are all full of grace and truth.