Jewish blood: reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture

'Jewish blood' : an introduction / MitchellL B. Hart -- Blood and belief : an introduction to a Jewish symbol / David Biale -- We have never been Jewish : an essay in asymmetric hematology / Gil Anidjar -- "By the blood that you shed you are guilty" : perspectives on female bloo...

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Published in:Routledge Jewish studies series
Contributors: Hart, Mitchell Bryan 1959- (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [u. a.] Routledge 2009
In: Routledge Jewish studies series (30)
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Series/Journal:Routledge Jewish studies series 30
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judaism / Blood / Symbolism (Theology)
B Judaism / Blood / Religious identity / Cult / Cultic purity
B Jewish literature / Blood (Motif)
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Judaism Relations Christianity
B Berit milah
B Christianity and other religions Judaism
B Blood Religious aspects Christianity
B Blood Religious aspects Judaism
B Blood accusation
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Summary:'Jewish blood' : an introduction / MitchellL B. Hart -- Blood and belief : an introduction to a Jewish symbol / David Biale -- We have never been Jewish : an essay in asymmetric hematology / Gil Anidjar -- "By the blood that you shed you are guilty" : perspectives on female blood in Leviticus and Ezekiel / Elizabeth W. Goldstein -- The topography of blood in Mishnah Yoma / Michael D. Swartz -- God will see the blood : sin, punishment, and atonement in the Jewish/Christian discourse / Israel J. Yuval -- Pharaoh's bloodbath : medieval European Jewish thoughts about leprosy, disease, and blood therapy / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner -- The blood libel in Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah / Jeremy Cohen -- The symbolic power of blood-letting : Bernard Picart's La circoncision des juifs portugais / Hilet Surowitz -- Blood and myth in the thought of Franz Rosenzweig / Hagai Dagan -- "Man's red soup" : blood and the art of Esau in the poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg / Neta Stahl -- The "blood motif" in the struggle for political recognition : Zionist "dissidents" contest exclusion / Udi Lebel -- Mezizah : the controversy over the manner of dealing with circumcision blood among contemporary Orthodox Jews / Ira Robinson
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Thies volume began as a conference held at the Univ. of Florida in February 2007. Dept. of History & the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies hosts the 9th-Annual Burns Lecture, February 9, 2007
ISBN:0415477492