Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
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> > There is no such thing as Judeo-Christian ideology. That would be like
> > Cat-Mouse Ideology.
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> and John Lacny added:
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> > It's definitely a category of recent vintage.
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> Sorry guys, but this is definatively not true. There is a judeo-Christian
> ideology -- it's called the Reformation.
Michael, you are in the wrong context. "Judeo-Christian" AS A TERM does not exist in English until late in the 20th century. What you are talking about here is the enormous influence of the OT on 16th/17th century Protestant theology. This has been discussed off and on for a long time. One Milton scholar spent his life trying to prove that Milton had read a number of Rabbinic commentaries -- not generally accepted now.
But "Judeo-Christian" was coined (as Max put it best) to name the opposite of whatever group of people were currently being bombed. It has nothing whatever to do with the actual influence of Jewish thought on Christian thought, and if it's being used by anyone now to refer to 17th-c writings, that is a pity because it will sow endless confusion.
Carrol