The Rise of Philo-Semitism and Premillennialism During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

“Ideas have consequences”, and one’s eschatology affects what one thinks of the Jews and the modern state of Israel. The abandonment of Premillennialism for Amillenialism (denying a literal millennium) and Preterism (believing eschatological events were fulfilled by the end of the Roman Empire) denies Jews the hopes given to them in the Bible, and contributes to attitudes of Antisemitism...