01272nas a2200145   4500008003900000022001400039245007200053210006900125300001200194490000700206520083700213653001301050100002101063856004201084       2002                          d  a1067-634100aAnti-Judaism and Care for the Poor in Aphrahat’s Demonstration 200 aAntiJudaism and Care for the Poor in Aphrahat s Demonstration 20  a305-3280 v103 a<p>While various scholars have written on the subject of Aphrahat and the Jews, no one has introduced&nbsp;Demonstration&nbsp;20,&nbsp;On the Care of the Poor, into the discussion. In this work Aphrahat exhorts his community to care for the poor, while he simultaneously attacks Judaism, which he construes as the spiritual equivalent of the rich man's greed. However, Aphrahat at times conflates the two sides of this analogy, thus rejecting the very possibility that Jews could engage in charity. I would like to set the argument of&nbsp;Demonstration&nbsp;20 within the context of the Sassanian persecution of Christians, when those Christians who did not understand Christianity as a distinct faith from Judaism may have been flocking to the synagogue to receive charity and perhaps, to Aphrahat's chagrin, something more.</p>
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