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Kant's sharp criticism of Judaism would be to the point only if one were to ignore completely (as he himself does)  the long line of Jewish self­-criticism beginning with the eighth century prophets and including, in a way, Jesus. In fact,  the main point of Kant's criticism is really simply the point already repeatedly made by these Jewish prophets. Ironically, then, his basic religious outlook is  itself eminently Jewish, or, if you will, Pharisaic, as 
as distinct from Christian, in Marxsen's sense of this distinction. Kant's sharp criticism of Judaism would be to the point only if one were to ignore completely (as he himself does)  the long line of Jewish self-criticism beginning with the eighth century prophets and including, in a way, Jesus. In fact, the main point of Kant's criticism is really simply the point already repeatedly made by these Jewish prophets. Ironically, then, his basic religious outlook is  itself eminently Jewish, or, if you will, Pharisaic, as distinct from Christian, in Marxsen's sense of this distinction.

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