“The major thrust of Christian appropriation of the Hebrew Scripture was to transfigure it, through Christological interpretation”

The major thrust of Christian appropriation of the Hebrew Scripture was to transfigure it, through Christological interpretation, from the literature of the persecuted to the literature of the persecutors, and use it, precisely, to justify her own persecution of religious enemies, Jews in particular.

José Faur, “Jewish and Western Historiographies: A Post-Modern Interpretation”, Modern Judaism 12:1 (February 1992), 34.