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On June 13, 1960, Jewish historian Jules Isaac had a momentous audience with Pope John XXIII. That day, he related findings that he would go on to publish in The Teaching of Contempt: Christian Roots of Antisemitism, which focused upon three core Christian antisemitic notions: Jews killed Jesus, Judaism was “degenerate” in the time of Jesus, and Jews were exiled from their ancestral homeland as punishment for Jesus’ crucifixion.