Statement

In the first two or three centuries, Christian hostility may have threatened Jews no more than Samaritan hostility did. Even after the punishments that followed the revolts, Judaism's legal standing changed little: Rome treated it as a legitimate, protected religion, whereas Christianity went through several waves of official persecution.

References

1. p. 117

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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