On Tuesday 19 November 2002 03:30 pm, Jim Dixon wrote:
> More to the point, there were no Muslims in Biblical times. The
> Muslims appeared around 600 years after Christ, centuries after the
> beginning of the Jewish diaspora. The Romans drove the Jews out of
> Jerusalem and Judea after their rebellion (66-135 AD). The Christians
> introduced anti-Jewish laws in roughly 300-600 AD, when Jerusalem was
> under Byzantine rule.
All true. And yes, I did know this.
> I believe that it is generally accepted that until quite recently, in
> historical terms, the Jews fared much better under the Muslims than
> under the Christians.
Agreed.
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