Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts

Susanna Drake

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2013

Slandering the Jew

Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts

Susanna Drake

In the series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208245

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About this book

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.

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Susanna Drake teaches religious studies at Macalester College.

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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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. The Making of Carnal Israel: Paul, Barnabas, Justin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. Origen Reads Jewishness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 3. Sexual/Textual Corruption: Early Christian Interpretations of Susanna and the Elders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 4. “A Synagogue of Malakoi and Pornai”: John Chrysostom’s Sermons against the Jews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 184
Illustrations
- Other: 4 illus.
Keywords: Religion; Religious Studies; Ancient Studies; Jewish Studies

eBook

Published: July 16, 2013
ISBN: 9780812208245