Sons of Jacob

came anti-Jewish to the extent that itnidentified itself with Roman civihzationnand absorbed a pre-Christian setnof prejudices. If Romanization was annecessary condition for the transmissionnof ancient civilization to Germanicnbarbarians, it was also the means bynwhich Roman anti-Semitism wasnspread. Christian Spain did not persecutenJews as long as it remained . . .