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expositions-205	none	Paul, Faustus, and Augustine’s Evolution toward Anti-anti-Semitism	2009	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4435	142	52	Briefly put, Fredriksen’s thesis is that, despite the sweepingly negative way in which most history textbooks, to say nothing whatsoever about prevailing popular assumptions, treat Christian-Jewish relations— especially following the legalization and eventual mainstreaming of Christianity in western society by the end of the fourth-century—we misunderstand both Augustine and the complex history of these rela- tions if we fail to recognize that the Bishop of Hippo was far from being anti-Semitic tout court. On the contrary, while Fredriksen does make it clear both that Augustine was no pluralist and that Augustine’s 186 Academic Roundtable © Equinox Publishing Ltd. 2009 employment of certain features of Late Antique rhetoric were often misconstrued by later readers, she is at pains to show how Augustine, for a whole host of ideological and contextual reasons, was both “pro- Jewish” and deeply respectful of the Jews’ history, their traditions, and what he understood to be their present and future roles in God’s salvific plan for humanity.	cache/expositions-205.pdf	txt/expositions-205.txt