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Slandering the Jew : sexuality and difference in early Christian texts /

This book explores the sexual slander of Jews in Christian texts from the first through fifth centuries. These early Christian representations of Jewish sexuality reveal how Church fathers used accusations of fleshliness, bestiality, and licentiousness as strategies to differentiate the "spirit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Drake, Susanna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Edición:[First edition].
Colección:Divinations.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The making of carnal Israel : Paul, Barnabas, Justin
  • Origen reads Jewishness
  • Sexual/textual corruption : Early Christian interpretations of Susanna and the Elders
  • "A synagogue of Malakoi and Pornai" : John Chrysostom's Sermons against the Jews
  • Conclusion.