¹² Levine, Amy-Jill, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (New York: HarperOne, 2004), 221Google Scholar. In September 2020, the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops published “Catholic Hymnody at the Service of the Church: An Aid for Evaluating Hymn Lyrics,” which cites the third verse of “Lord of the Dance” as an example of how “Application of the Guidelines here will rule out hymn verses that imply that the Jews as a people are collectively responsible for the death of Christ” (6).

¹³ Sievers, Joseph, “Who Were the Pharisees?,” in Hillel and Jesus, ed. H., James Charlesworth and Loren L. Johns (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997), 137–55Google Scholar.