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| Author | James Carroll |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Published | 2001 |
| Publisher | Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | xii + 756 |
| ISBN | 0395779278 |
| OCLC | 44727744 |
| LC Class | BM535 .C37 2001 |
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History (2001) is a book by James Carroll, a former priest, which documents the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the long European history of religious antisemitism as a precursor to racial antisemitism. The primary source of anti-Jewish violence is the perennial obsession with converting the Jews to Christianity; an event which some theologians believed would usher in the Second Coming.