Reckless rites : Purim and the legacy of Jewish violence /
Historical accounts of Jewish violence--particularly against Christians--have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. Others have discounted, dismissed, or simply ignored the evidence, often for apologetic purposes. In Reckless Rites, Ell...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE.BIBLICAL LEGACIES
- 1. The Book of Esther
- 2. A Pair of Queens
- 3. Mordecai's Reckless Refusal
- 4. The Eternal Haman
- 5.Amalek
- PART TWO. JEWS LIVING DANGEROUSLY
- 6. "The Fascination of the Abomination"
- 7. Mild Men or Wild Men?
- 8. Ancient Jewish Violence and Modern Scholarship
- 9. Purim, Carnival, and Violence
- 10. Local Purims and the Invention of Tradition
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index