Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic?
From the blog "Monday with Mounce" at billmounce.com
This is a question that has been turning up in my Substack inbox lately and when this article appeared in my email inbox from another (non-Substack) blog I follow, I thought it worth passing along. It comes from people vastly more qualified to comment than am I, although we reach the same general conclusion: No!1
The post can be found here—it is technical but not terribly so. It is simple, as these kinds of questions go. The page is public as far as I can determine. If the link fails, please let me know and try Monday with Mounce, looking for the article “Is the NT Anti-Semitic?“.2
I will quote here just the final paragraph:
In the current culture, this is something that we must be sensitive toward. The entire Jewish nation did not kill Jesus. The Jewish leaders and some of the Jews did. Punctuation should reflect this.
I agree.
Bill Mounce is one of the translators of the New International Version (NIV) and the English Standard Version (ESV).
With the Gospel of John the question is not as simple. This is noted in Mounce’s blog post with the remark “John does say ‘the Jews,’ and it's an added level of interpretation to determine if it was a subgroup of the Jews“. I have considered that matter as well, and it certainly is an added level, but the conclusion remains that it was a subgroup.
Not sure why I had to enter some code sent to My email to reply... Anyway, irrespective of the group involved, the Ones in control were surely psychopaths. Like today. Money promotes psychopaths to power, so any civilization that uses it will see psychopaths in control, buying things and People to Their agendas.