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

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

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Drake, Susanna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Divinations.
Subjects:
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.
Christianity.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Judaism.
History.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-163) and index.
ISBN:0812208242
9780812208245

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