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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Drake, Susanna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Edition:[First edition].
Series:Divinations.
Subjects:
10-600
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity > History > Talmudic period, 10-425.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christianity.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Judaism.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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