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special “revelations” aside, theology should be derived from common Christian experience.

Lack of education is not the same thing as hatred; misinformation is not the same thing as slander.

If we get the context wrong, we’ll get Jesus wrong as well.

be dedicated to illustrating how religious beliefs, doctrines, and stories may be analyzed through the lens of modern history but must be analyzed through the lens of Christian theological reasoning.

But the search for a Roman reality behind the charges very much misses the point of these texts: they are the product of an ideology that represented the struggle against tyranny in terms of a struggle against the Jews.

It took faith to stay Jewish in the Hellenistic age,

Sources must be used with care: modern historians must be aware of the deep biases of the authors of these sources, and whenever possible, various sources that refer to the same event must be studied together, since they are often mutually enlightening. But these sources should not simply be discarded.

For the women, the parable offered a mirror of family dynamics, not an allegory about God, Christians, and Jews.

should be shared with those who had not been through the Holocaust.