i think the real reason antisemites hate the talmud is not because of anything contained therein, but because they hate that we had the audacity to create a new holy book after the bible that was not the new testament, and then worse yet, treat it with significant religious authority
and im sure its also about christian beef with the pharisees
and not only that but it affirms the law (as they’d call it) as continually relevant. ie jesus did not fulfill it. and also continually evolving, beyond what jesus would even have recognized. it makes blatant the fact that jews are not a historical artifact of pre-christ but an actual living breathing people that has continued to evolve, and continued to reject christ. this is the fundamental tension about jews in christianity; are we the Main Characters In The Bible or are we the Rejectors of Christ? can we be both? how can we be both?
It affirms that we are not a historical artifact, but it also affirms that we had and continue to have, religious autonomy and authority not related to nor in defiance of Christianity, but completely separate from any notion of it.
Christianity, in one way or another, must think of and refer to Judaism constantly, if only to repudiate it in whole or in part, even while weaponizing its bowdlerized appropriated Torah. The Talmud, existing solely to address Jewish law and Jewish thought in itself, and in the context of the Jewish world without regard to anyone outside of it, is the written manifestation of "we don't think of you at all," at least not in religious context. And having been assigned as Christianity's (and by extension, the West's) perpetual subalterns, how dare we? What gives us the right?
