Blood and belief : the circulation of a symbol between Jews and Christians /
David Biale traces the continuing, changing and often clashing roles of blood as both both symbol and substance through the entire sweep of Jewish and Christian history, from Biblical times to the present.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2007.
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| Col·lecció: | S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp9rs |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction : writing with blood
- Pollution and power : blood in the Hebrew Bible
- Blood and the covenant : the Jewish and Christian careers of a biblical verse
- God's blood : medieval Jews and Christians debate the body
- Power in the blood : the medieval and the modern in Nazi anti-semitism
- From blood to libel to blood community : self-defense and self-assertion in modern Jewish culture
- Epilogue : blood and belief.