Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
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Slandering the Jew deepens our understanding of the connectedness between the body, exegesis, and religious identity in the late ancient world." * Wendy Mayer, Australian Catholic University *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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 Porna": John Chrysostom's Sermons against the Jews
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
