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That became the Christian charge of deicide;
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the Jews were then accused of killing God,
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and especially in medieval Europe.
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So Matthew is in this very peculiar place
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when it comes to the history of the interpretation of the New Testament.
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It is at the same time the most Jewish of our canonical Gospels, in many ways,
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and yet it's been used in christian anti-Semitism
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more than any other Gospel,
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possibly maybe with the Gospel of John being a rival for that.
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Look at the structure of Matthew though.
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Some people have even suggested that
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Matthew is intentionally structuring his Gospel to