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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520934238
  • 0520934237
  • 1433708981
  • 9781433708985
  • 9781435611474
  • 1435611470
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blood and belief.DDC classification:
  • 296.3/96 22
LOC classification:
  • BM729.B58
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.

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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.

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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