Slandering the Jew : sexuality and difference in early Christian texts

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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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Main Author: Drake, Susanna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Edition:[First edition].
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.
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