1. Fred G. Bratton, The Crime of Christendom (Boston, 1969), p. 7. Rheinach, the French scholar, did a comprehensive inventory of all passages in the literature of classical antiquity dealing with Jews. Of those cited most are unfavourable.
2. Howard Singer, Bring Forth the Mighty Men (New York, 1969), p. 60.
3. Quoted in V.D. Segre, Israel A Society in Transition (Toronto, 1971), p. 8.
4. H. Feldman, “Philo-Semitism Among Ancient Intellectuals”, Tradition I, No. 1, Fall 1958, pp. 27–39.
5. Quoted in Samuel Sandmel, The First Christian Century and Judaism (New York, 1970), p. 17. Joseph Jards, however, in his Jewish Contributions to Civilization (Philadelphia, 1919), p. 14, maintains that the refusal of the Jews to accept the syncretizing tendencies of the Persians led to the kind of anti-Semitism found in the Biblical book of Esther.