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Western anti-Semitism had deep Christian roots, however, is the New Testament the ultimate religious root of European anti-Semitism? This paper distinguished two concepts: the 'anti-Semitic element' and the 'anti-Semitic nature'. Then we criticized the 'theory of the New Testament's anti-Semitism', analyzing its one-sidedness from the perspective of universality, revealing its inner contradictions from the self-identical criterion of understanding. Finally we made a 'rational distinction' between the 'transcendent domain' and the 'immanent domain', between 'God's sovereign activity' and the 'ethical prescript'. Although the New Testament has some anti-Semitic elements in the 'transcendent domain', there is no anti-Semitic teaching in the ethical prescript which belongs to the 'immanent domain', so the New Testament is not substantially anti-Semitic. The real root of Christian anti-Semitism is not the New Testament, but the 'Zeitgeist' in various periods of the Christian world. Thus we found one solution to the Issue of the New Testament's anti-Semitism, and the reconciliation between Christianity and Judaism on this issue could be possible.