Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Insults and ciphers: the vocabulary of denigration
  • Christian land, sabbath milk, and the magic of fire
  • The Jew as buda: hyena in human form
  • Gift giving and the multiple meanings of knives and sheep
  • Christian help with Jewish dead: mitigating the crisis of impurity
  • Religious holidays: inclusion and exclusion
  • The twice-disguised hyena
  • Flesh and bones: Jewish masters, Jewish slaves
  • Crucifiers and idol makers: Judaism and Christianity in the village square
  • Our blood, their blood: menstruation, slaughter, and eating
  • The battle of metaphors: fire and water versus clay vessels
  • Transformations.