Title Blood and belief : the circulation of a symbol between Jews and Christians / David Biale.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages).
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Series	The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
	S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.
Contents	Introduction : writing with blood -- Pollution and power : blood in the Hebrew Bible -- Blood and the covenant : the Jewish and Christian careers of a biblical verse -- God's blood : medieval Jews and Christians debate the body -- Power in the blood : the medieval and the modern in Nazi anti-semitism -- From blood to libel to blood community : self-defense and self-assertion in modern Jewish culture -- Epilogue : blood and belief.
Summary	David Biale traces the continuing, changing and often clashing roles of blood as both both symbol and substance through the entire sweep of Jewish and Christian history, from Biblical times to the present.
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Subject	Blood -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
	Blood -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
	Blood -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
	Blood -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
	Blood in the Bible.
	Blood in the Bible.
	Blood accusation -- History.
	Blood accusation.
	History.
	Antisemitism -- History.
	Christianity and antisemitism.
	Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
	Antisemitism.
	Christianity and antisemitism.
	Judaism.
	Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
	Relations.
	Christianity.
	RELIGION -- Judaism -- Theology.
	Christianity and other religions.
	RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
	Interfaith relations.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Blood and belief Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520253049 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2007000122
ISBN	9780520934238 ebook
	0520934237
	9780520253049 cloth alkaline paper
	0520253043 cloth alkaline paper
	1433708981 (electronic book)
	9781433708985 (electronic book)
	9781435611474 (electronic book)
	1435611470 (electronic book)
	9780520257986 (paperback)
	0520257987 (paperback)
Standard No.	XB147017

Title Blood and belief : the circulation of a symbol between Jews and Christians / David Biale.

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