The Semitic concept unraveled from internal Christian tension, not conflict alone.

Evidence

It is therefore the being-together of these two brothers, of these two modalities of the origin, that is unbearable, as if their reunion threatened monotheistic reason in its fundamental concepts. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 2 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Semitic concept emerged from biblical philology rather than secular linguistics.; The Semitic concept carried an internal Christian-based imbalance from its start.; The Semitic idea’s Christian foundation sowed its own eventual split into Jew and Arab — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 706 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Monotheistic reason is threatened by the coexistence of Jew and Arab as sibling origins. #complicates (0.78) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 2