Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.
Contents
Introduction: equality, supersession, and anxiety -- Ambivalence and continuity -- The Bollandists and their work -- Richard of Pontoise and Philip Augustus -- The Jewish version: the Bollandist reconstruction vindicated -- A usable past -- Purity and its discontents -- Denouement.
Summary
'Jewish Dogs' is not a study of 'anti-Semitism' or 'anti-Judaism'. Instead, this text argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric - and sometimes not so metaphoric - dogs.
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Language
Includes documents in Latin as well as documents translated into English from Hebrew and Latin.