Against the Jews
John Chrysostom (347–407)
John Chrysostom preached 8 sermons to his congregation against the Jews. These were transmitted to us in the Greek manuscripts of his works, but the 2nd sermon was much shorter than the others, leading scholars to suppose that most of that sermon was lost. This belief was confirmed in the 1990's when German scholar Wendy Pradels discovered a forgotten copy of sermon II in a Greek monastery which contained the missing material.
The English translation on this site used to reside at Fordham University , in the Medieval Sourcebook, where it was placed by Paul Halsall in 1998. At the foot of the page he wrote:
This translation, here cleaned up for typos, etc, was on an anti-Semitic website [as a justification for current anti-Semitism]. So far I have been unable to track down the translator. There were eight homilies by Chrysostom on the subject. This seems to be the first six.
MELVYL reports a translation C. Mervyn Maxwell, Chrysostom's homilies against the Jews : an English translation , Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1967. I am trying to find out whether these texts are Maxwell's or an earlier translators'.
Homilies 7 and 8 were listed with the note:
[e-text added May 2002]
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