Antedating of "Judaeo-Christian"

[Fred Shapiro]

Judaeo-Christian (OED 1899)

1854 _Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc'y_ IV. 410 (JSTOR)  The style of this
passage shows ... that it is borrowed from some Jewish or Judaeo-Christian
source.

Fred Shapiro


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