Talk:The Life of Our Lord

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Did you know... that English novelist Charles Dickens wrote the bestseller The Life of Our Lord for his children in 1849, but it was not published until 1934, 64 years after his death?

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Antisemitism[edit]

Of Dickens' Anti-Semitism there is no doubt, but why does the article label it as a Victorian attitude? Sadly, Anti-Semitic attitudes have been common throughout Europe from the medieval period to the present day, and the Victorians were hardly the most brutal of the Anti-Semites, so why target them? 98.220.235.82 (talk)

The context for these quotes is:

As it was the custom at the Feast of the Passover to give some prisoner his liberty, Pilate endeavoured to persuade the people to ask for the release of Jesus. But they said (being very ignorant and passionate, and being told to do so, by the priests), "No, no, we will not have Him released. Release Barabbas, and let this man be crucified!"

And:

Our Saviour performed His miracles, certain people who were called Pharisees. They were very proud, and believed that no people were good but themselves ; and they were all afraid of Jesus Christ, because He taught the people better. So were the Jews, in general.

Both these seem different in context. The first is talking about the mob specifically. The second is unclear, but I would read it as applying the "all afraid of Jesus Christ" clause to "the Jews, in general", while I think that is over-broad, it's nothing like the interpretation placed on it with the current article text.

Getting the Jewish Sabbath wrong is very odd, the word "Sunday" is used about three or four times in this regard. It would be interesting to see the MS. However this is not even remotely antisemitic, it's just a mistake.

"Victorian" might serve a useful purpose to qualify antisemitism, if there were schools of antisemitism. But I agree in this case it doesn't.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough 11:01, 14 February 2024 (UTC).[reply]

On closer inspection, since this only cites The Life of Our Lord", it's original research, so I've removed it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 11:25, 14 February 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Plagiarism[edit]

The middle section of this article is an uncredited plagiarism of a review on Amazon by Sheila Bright. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.164.68 (talk) 03:45, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]