Volume 3, Number 12 · January 28, 1965
The Jews and the Death of Jesus
By M.I. Finley
It is hardly surprising to find some discordant notes among the general chorus of enthusiastic praise for the recent Vatican Ecumenical Council's draft declaration on the Jews. Thus, a Reuters dispatch from Damascus, under date of December 5th, reports a protest by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Orient. The Council's statement that the crucifixion 'cannot be attributed to the whole [Jewish] people then alive, much less to that of today,' is totally unacceptable to Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III, who said:
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