Tractatus de imposturis et ceremoniis Iudaeorum nostri temporis

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I am not here going to pursue the prophecies left by Moses and the Prophets concerning the Talmudists, issued by divine impulse and inspiration, which, by their own authority (even if not a whit had been produced by other writers concerning their wickedness), should deter us from entering into commerce and familiarity with them: nor shall I bring forward the testimonies of the New Testament, which is exploded by the Jews as a lie filled with abuse and cursed with all imprecations: for they clearly gather from it that, like some disobedient children, they are excluded from the heavenly inheritance by some testament, while the Gentiles are written as its heirs: but they do not achieve as much by their blasphemies and curses as to escape from the hand and power of God, who is mighty and pursues them with His heavy and severe judgment. Yet, I will not pass over in silence certain Jewish historiographers who have complained gravely about their own impious, perfidious, and seditious people. From the times of the Apostles, therefore, some have revealed the character of the Jews in their writings, whose books even now survive, while others have perished through the injury of time. Joannes the Philosopher, in the year 1064 after the birth of Christ the Savior, in that book which is called Ecclesiasticus, described the fatal hatred of the Jews toward the followers of Christ in a dialogue. Alexander, called from the Hebrews to Christ, brought the history of the obstinacy and the Jewish war, as witnessed by Josephus, up to the year 1030. Clement of Alexandria, in the year 1095, published a book against those apostates who twist the true and genuine meaning of the Holy Scriptures into something foreign and strange (whom we call Talmudists), although he otherwise did not think ill of the ancient families of the Jews, whose lineage he wove together. Tertullian accomplished the same...