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  • noun Opposition to Judaism.

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anti- +‎ Judaism

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Examples

  • I think this is a good paper and I'm quoting it in my job about antijudaism in gnosticism.

    SBL Paper: Mandaean Polemic against Jews and Christians as Evidence about the Origins and Setting of Early Mandaism James F. McGrath 2008

  • But that Christ would set up the kingdom in Jerusalem, and that it would be an earthly kingdom with sensuous enjoyments -- these and other notions contend on the one hand with the vigorous antijudaism of the communities, and on the other with the moralistic spiritualism, in the pure carrying out of which the

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • With reference to the second point, we may remark that just when the decay of antijudaism, the polemic against Marcion, and the new needs of the ecclesiastical system threatened the Church with an estimate of the

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • In the early middle ages, at least, we shouldn't confuse clerical antijudaism with general attitudes: how much power did Church councils really have, he asks, and what could an antisemitic king do when he could barely hold onto his (Visigothic) throne?

    In the Middle 2010

  • But surely the repeated massacres, judicial murders, and expulsions of Jews from the late eleventh century on, and the centrality of antijudaism to, say, the development of Mariolotry (warning: pdf) suggests that Jews were a special object of hatred for medieval Christians.

    In the Middle 2010

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