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Article: Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- May 5, 2009
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Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism.
By Paula Fredriksen.
Doubleday, 512 pp., $35.00.
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I remember once defending the doctrine of divine immutability to a renowned New Testament scholar at an academic conference. I was a graduate student at the time, and had not yet decided that I would work on Augustine's biblical exegesis for my dissertation. No doubt exasperated by my argumentation, and perhaps uncomfortable that I did not yet know that such conferences are not meant for actual theological conversation, he pulled out the ultimate trump card. "The anti-Semitism of the church fathers ...