Anti-Judaism.

A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition. There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism - whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campai...

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1. Verfasser: Nirenberg, David 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Head of Zeus, 2013
Schlagworte:Antisemitism ; Europe ; History Civilization, Western ; Jewish influences Europe, Western ; Ethnic relations Electronic books
Umfang:1 online resource (551 pages)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Cover; Welcome page; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; Introduction: Thinking about Judaism, or the Judaism of Thought; Chapter 1: The Ancient World: Egypt, Exodus, Empire; A Garrison on the Frontier; Passover Problems; The Emergence of an Anti-Jewish Tradition; Manetho's History of Mosaic Misanthropy; The Crafting of an Anti-Jewish Cosmology; Manetho's Moses: Creative History versus Historical Memory; The Victory of Manetho's Vision; The Politics of Difference in a Multiethnic Empire; The Emperor Is a ""Jew"": Anti-Judaism as Anti-Tyranny; Apion's Embassy against the Jews
  • From Exception to Exclusion and ExterminationChapter 2: Early Christianity: The Road to Emmaus, the Road to Damascus; The Road to Emmaus; The Road to Damascus; ""A Scandal to the Jews, to the Gentiles Foolishness""; ""Cast Out the Slave and Her Son""; ""They Are Enemies, but for Your Sake""; ""As for My Enemies...""; ""Beware the Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees""; ""You Are from Your Father, the Devil""; Chapter 3: The Early Church: Making Sense of the World in Jewish Terms; Early Christian Polyphony; The Church of Martyrs and the Threat of Judaism
  • Anti-Jewish Solutions to Christological QuestionsThe ""Jewishness"" of Earthly Politics; Christian Empire: The Danger of Judaism in the New Jerusalem; Saint John Golden Mouth: "Bring Them Here and Slay Them"; Saint Ambrose: "That King Has Become a Jew"; Saint Jerome: "A Notable Hatred for the Circumcised"; Saint Augustine: "Paul Was Indeed a Jew"; "Outcast on the Earth"; Chapter 4: "To Every Prophet an Adversary": Jewish Enmity in Islam; Scriptural Community, Scriptural Conflict; "Be Not First to Disbelieve"; Zones of Confusion: Jew and Hypocrite
  • The Role of Jewish Enmity in the Construction of Muhammad's BiographyThe Politics of Anti-Judaism; Judaizing and De-Judaizing Islam; Potential Futures; Chapter 5: The "Revenge of the Savior": Jews and Power in Medieval Europe; The Prince as Jew-Lover; The Prince as Exterminator of Jews; The "Jewish" Foundations of Princely Power; The King's "Private Things"; Judaism, Fiscality, Monarchy; Resisting "Jewish" Government: "We Would Rather Die"; Ritual Murders, Murderous Rituals; The Sovereign's Dilemma: Protect or Persecute?; "Thy State of Law Is Bondslave to the Law"
  • Chapter 6: The Extinction of Spain's Jews and the Birth of Its Inquisition "So That No Jew Remain in the World Henceforth"; The Vanishing Difference between Christian and Jew; "Many Frequently Judaize"; Putting Judaizing to Work: Poets "Stuffed Full of Jewish Sperm"; Putting Judaizing to Work: Politicians of the Synagogue; Putting Judaizing to Work: The Spanish Inquisition; Chapter 7: Reformation and Its Consequences; The Distinction between the Law and the Gospel; Draining the Jews from the Letter of Scripture; From Hermeneutic Jews to Living Ones; "Jewish" Weapons in Christian Wars
  • "We Should Neither Tolerate, nor Endure Them"