Screen LibrarySlandering 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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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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 "spiritual" Christian from the "carnal" Jew. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 4 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812208245 |
| Index Number: | BR195 |
| CLC: | B979 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Making of Carnal Israel: Paul, Barnabas, Justin -- Chapter 2. Origen Reads Jewishness -- Chapter 3. Sexual/Textual Corruption: Early Christian Interpretations of Susanna and the Elders -- Chapter 4. "A Synagogue of Malakoi and Pornai": John Chrysostom s Sermons against the Jews -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |