An eighth-century iconodule tract claims that the iconoclasts have “perpetuated the work of the Jews,” and compared the iconoclasts to Jewish priests conspiring against Christ. Like many other ironodule treatises, it accused the Jews of corrupting the minds of iconoclast emperors.
It would be interesting to explore to what degree the iconodule position was affected by anti-Jewish rhetoric and polemic.
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