Place · North Africa
Hippo
Ancient names: Hippo Regius
A North African city associated with the theologian Augustine of Hippo.
36.8825°N 7.7501°E · representative coordinate · Pleiades 305090 ↗
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Augustine of Hippo (354 to 430) disagreed sharply with the Jews: he held that they misread the Bible and that their dispersion and suffering were punishment for rejecting Christ. Even so, unlike other Christian thinkers, he did not preach violence: Jews were to go on existing, even in humiliation, to serve as living proof of Christian faith. This view probably weighed heavily in allowing Jews to survive under Christian governments through the Middle Ages.