the overtly antisemitic strain of dispensationalism had more detractors than supporters. J. Frank Norris, the popular preacher Louis Bauman, and most scholastics dissented from this line of thought and were Zionists as well as critics of European antisemitism. They agreed with Riley that Jews were exceptional and occupied “a major place in prophecy,” but they fixed their negative analysis of global events on communists, fascists, progressives, and evolutionists. Rather, the place of Jews in prophecy was linked to Zionism and the “restoration” of national Israel in the Holy Land. Most
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