Is The Gospel of John Anti-Semitic?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

Chris Huntley

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Gospel of John is one of the most puzzling books of the New Testament, especially when it comes to understanding its view of Jews and Judaism. On one hand, Jesus is clearly described as a Jew who understands and teaches the law of Moses and who keeps Jewish customs and festivals. On the other hand, the Gospel condemns Jews, makes them guilty for the execution of Jesus, and even declares that their "father" is not Abraham, let alone God, but the Devil. How can one book so fully embrace Judaism and yet condemn it. And importantly, is this kind of vitriolic opposition to Jews and Judaism appropriately called "anti-semitism"? The answer will surprise many listeners.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.
0:07.1	The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar
0:12.6	uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus,
0:18.7	and the rise of Christianity.
0:20.8	I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.
0:24.7	Hello everybody and welcome back to misquoting Jesus. Today we are talking about the gospel of
0:29.7	John, specifically its treatment and depiction of Jewish people. Before we get into that,
0:35.0	Bart, how are you doing today? Yeah, I'm doing pretty well. It's been a busy
0:38.8	few months for me. Sarah and I are heading off to the Galapagos in two days. Beautiful. And we've got a
0:46.9	friend who loves arranging trips. I love going on trips. I don't love arranging them because I usually
0:52.8	make bad choices about where to stay and what, you know, what to do. And so we have this friend who's like, arranged international travel for university students. And so like she wanted to go with it. So she planned the whole thing. Yeah. And so Sarah's a real nature person. She just loves animals and birds. And so, uh, and the Galapagos. I mean, you know, I'm going to take Darwin
1:12.3	with me and have a good time. That sounds wonderful. And I would also like a friend who enjoys
1:17.7	arranging international trips because I do it, but I find it very stressful. Yeah. It's funny how
1:22.6	some people just love it, you know, love arranging stuff and other people just really, yeah, for some of us,
1:28.4	it's just stress. So how about you? You're probably not going to the Galapagos this weekend.
1:33.9	No, I wish I was. No, I'm not. I am in the middle of, well, the middle. I've started teaching
1:40.3	Samarian, so that's going really well. Whoa. Yes, it's very exciting.
1:44.5	I'm having a great time. So I'm spending a lot of time lesson planning because it's not, I haven't taught this before. So it's stuff I know, but I need to get it down into a format that I can then share with other people. So it makes sense to them and not just me. So we have to get to the gospel of John, but I will ask. So it doesn't have an alphabet, right?
1:42.5	No.
1:43.4	No, it we'll ask. So it doesn't have an alphabet, right?
2:03.0	No.
2:03.8	No.
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