Title Blood and belief : the circulation of a symbol between Jews and Christians / David Biale

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) Series The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Blood -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Blood -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Blood in the Bible. Blood accusation -- History Antisemitism -- History Christianity and antisemitism. Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity. Christianity and other religions -- Judaism. RELIGION -- Judaism -- Theology. RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. Antisemitism Blood accusation Blood in the Bible Blood -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Blood -- Religious aspects -- Judaism Christianity Christianity and antisemitism Interfaith relations Judaism Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021696786 ISBN 9780520934238 0520934237 1433708981 9781433708985 9781435611474 1435611470

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