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 By the middle of John’s Gospel, the term “Jew” no longer has the clear racial meaning it had at the beginning when the Samaritan woman was told that “salvation is from the Jews.” The other, more negative redefinition of the word “Jew” is non-racial and becomes apparent in the story of the man born blind in John 9. That man’s parents, we are told, refused to answer any questions about Jesus healing their son because they feared the “Jews.” By the end of the Gospel, Jewish identity has changed. The Jew has become, not a child of Moses, but a rejecter of Christ. The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit traces the consequences of that rejection through 2,000 years of European and American history.

The Gospels make clear that the Jews rejected Christ because he was crucified. They
wanted a powerful leader, not a suffering servant. Annas and Caiphas mockingly told
Christ that if he came down from the cross, they would accept him as the Messiah.

Jews may have become revolutionaries at the foot of the cross, but the full implication of their decision didn’t become apparent until 30 years later, when the Jews rebelled against Rome, and Rome retaliated by destroying the Temple.

E. Michael Jones’s book explains how the Jewish revolutionary spirit means revolution against Logos – the deepest kind of revolution. As early as the 4th century A.D., the Jews sided with the Arians because they had become habituated to promoting revolution. Rabbi Louis Israel Newman points out how Jews have consistently supported revolutionary movements throughout history. Jews joined forces with heretics during the Albigensian crisis, the Hussite revolution, the Reformation, and at the birth of modern England. They joined forces with revolutionaries during the Enlightenment, the Russian Revolution, and the Civil Rights movement. We also see the conflict between the Church and Judaism working itself out at the birth of the Spanish Inquisition, the spread of the Polish empire and the Chmielnicki rebellion that began the break-up of that empire. Finally, we see a Jewish presence in the rise of the American Empire.

E. Michael Jones’ latest book delves into areas of history that have too often been distorted by fear of theological clarity. Going beyond merely political explanations for Jewish revolutionary movements that have defined themselves by a messianic
rejection of Christendom, this controversial and timely work seeks to refocus ecumenical debate, help us understand the modern world and, perhaps most of all, tell us something about who we are.

 

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The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit
And Its Impact on World History
E. MICHAEL JONES

1,200 pages, 6” x 9”, clothbound, $48.00
ISBN-13: 978-0-929891-07-1;
ISBN-10: 0-929891-07-4
introduction, notes, index
publication date: September 2008