Jewish Blood: Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 13
\"Jewish blood\": An Introduction (Hart)......Page 14
Blood and Belief: An Introduction to a Jewish Symbol (Biale)......Page 27
We Have Never Been Jewish: An Essay inAsymmetric Hematology (Anidjar)......Page 44
\"By the blood that you shed you are guilty\": Perspectives on Female Blood in Leviticus and Ezekial (Goldstein)......Page 70
The Topography of Blood in Mishnah Yoma (Swartz)......Page 83
God Will See the Blood: Sin, Punishment, and Atonement in the Jewish-Christian Discourse (Yuval)......Page 96
Pharaoh\'s Bloodbath: Medieval European Jewish Thoughts about Leprosy, Disease, and Blood Therapy (Shoham-Steiner)......Page 112
The Blood Libel in Solomon ibn Verga\'s Shevet Yehudah (Cohen)......Page 129
The Symbolic Power of Blood-Letting: Bernard Picart\'s La Circoncision des Juifs Portugais (Surowitz)......Page 149
Blood and Myth in the Thought of Franz Rosenweig (Dagan)......Page 165
\"Man\'s red soup\": Blood at the Art of Esau in the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg (Stahl)......Page 173
The \"Blood Motif\" in the Struggle for Political Recognition: Zionist \"Dissidents\" Contest Exclusion (Lebel)......Page 185
Mezizah: The Controversy over the Manner of Dealing with Circumcision Blood among Contemporary Orthodox Jews (Robinson)......Page 207
Index......Page 223