Throughout this article I have qualified my statements by saying things like "I believe..." and "I think...". I have not said "The Church teaches..." These are personal opinions. They are the opinions of an Orthodox Christian, but they are not the teaching of the Church. As I said at the beginning, I hope it may stimulate church historians and theologians to write more fully and more authoritatively on this matter, because I believe it is an important one.
For further reading:
The following books deal with the history of Jewish-Christian relations, especially in the first four centuries of the Christian era. They are not exhaustive, and none of them is written by an Orthodox Christian, so they cannot be taken as indicating an Orthodox point of view. They do, however, give useful background information.
Braham, Randolf L (ed). 1986. The origins of the Holocaust: Christian anti-Semitism. Boulder: Social Science Monographs. Dewey: 261.260924
Neusner, Jacob. 1987. Judaism and Christianity in the age of Constantine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Dewey: 292.3872
Shanks, Hershel (ed). 1992. Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: a parallel history of their origins and early development. Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society. Dewey: 261.2609015
Wilken, Robert L. 1983. John Chrysostom and the Jews: rhetoric and reality in the late 4th century. Berkeley: University of California Press. Dewey: 261.2609394
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