Wednesday, July 04, 2007

The Longest Hatred 3

For those who would like to do some further reading, here is a list of useful resources:

Books

General works

Hated without A Cause? - A Survey of Antisemitism by Graham Keith (Paternoster, 1997) - the most comprehensive Christian treatment of the subject I know

The Changing Faces of Antisemitism from Ancient Times to the Present Day by Walter Laqueur (Oxford, 2007) (details here)

Theological works:

Your Father the Devil? by Steve Motyer (Paternoster, 1997) (a look at the use of the term "Jews" in John's gospel)

Antisemitism and the New Testament by Steve Motyer (Grove Books, 2002)

The New Testament: A Pro-Jewish Book by Maurice Bowler: online version available here

Websites:

Report of The UK All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism here

The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia working definition of Anti-Semitism here (this includes some useful guidelines as to when "criticism of Israel" may become "antisemitic")

Paul Bogdanor's excellent compilation of resources on left-wing antisemitism, including the bizarre phenomena of Jewish, even Israeli Jewish antisemitism and self-hate here

The Engage website challenges contemporary antisemitism (in particular, moves to impose an academic boycott upon Israel) from a left-wing perspective: here

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