ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL AUTHORS…contd….

MOHAMMED, 570-632.. He produced the words for the Koran, which contains promises and maledictions for the Jews, for example :- “And we said to to the children of Israel after him, “Dwell in the land; and when the promise of the world to come comes to pass, we shall bring you a rabble.” ( i.e. as a crowd gathered out of various nations.)-  Sura 17: 105-6       “And well you know there were among you that transgressed the sabbath , and we said to them,” Be you apes, miserably slinking ! And we made it a punishment exemplary for all the former times and for the latter.”-Sura 2-62

AGOBARD, archbishop of Lyons, 779-840…In his letters to his superiors he accused the Jews of blasphemy , superstition and of maligning Jesus Christ in the “Toledoth Jeshu”. He also alleged that they curse Christians in their prayers, that they steal  Christian children in order to sell them on to Arab traders, and that they seduce Christian women. He considered that the Jews are cursed, unclean, a generation of vipers, a useless and sinful race.

AMULO, archbishop of Lyons, 841-852…In his treatise directed against the Jews he stated that the Jews believe in two Messiahs, that they malign Jesus as though He were Lucifer. Their unbelief in Christ is detestable. He accused the Jews of using their money to induce Christians to renounce their faith.

“The TOLEDOTH  YESHU “…An anonymous and fabulous  work  which appeared in the 10th.century, probably derived from an earlier oral source. It contains blasphemies against Jesus Christ and Mary. It was ignored by scholarly Jews, but a few saw it as an example of the Jewish hatred of Christians. It thus served as a further pretext for  the oppression of the Jews in Europe.