Over the past few years, we Anxious Bench bloggers have dealt with many and sundry topics. As I look back, though, I am surprised to see one big omission, both my myself and my colleagues, which is that of Jews and Judaism, and Christian-Jewish relations. If we have touched on it, we have not said much. I suppose the topic just has not arisen, but it is, Heaven knows, a vastly important topic in the great scheme of Christian history.
I would just point to one contribution of my own that I wrote many years back, which is a paper called Sticking up for Jews? Anti-Semitic Stereotypes in the English Novel. Make allowances for when it was written, and pardon the fact that I have not updated it to take account of recent scholarly literature, which is substantial.
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