In discussing Jewish sentiment towards paganism, Plaskow reveals that hatred of other religions, reinforced by religious texts and cultural aspects, can cause Jews don't know how other traditions came about. modeled his own. Plaskow argues that by hating paganism, the Jewish community loses parts of its history. By rejecting paganism, Jews mask “the important role that concrete artifacts played in ancient Jewish practice” (Plaskow, [Jewish Anti-Paganism], 1999, 111-112). By ignoring this fact, Jews prevent themselves from seeing the full picture and history of the beginnings of their tradition. Furthermore, by being uneducated about how women performed roles as “dancers and diviners, musicians and priestesses” in the early days of their religions, Jews allowed their tradition to exclude “women from religious leadership” (Plaskow, [Jewish Anti -Paganism ], 1999, 112). While Plaskow does not believe that paganism is directly incorporated into Jewish tradition, he only believes that paganism should be followed more “closely and critically” so that the tradition does not suppress “true human beings and distort our understanding of ourselves.” (Plaskow, [Jewish anti-paganism], 1999,