Blood and Belief The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians - The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies
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Blood contains extraordinary symbolic power in both Judaism and Christianityas the blood of sacrifice, of Jesus, of the Jewish martyrs, of menstruation, and more. Yet, though they share the same literary, cultural, and religious origins, on the question of blood the two religions have followed quite different trajectories. For instance, while Judaism rejects the eating or drinking of blood, Christianity mandates its symbolic consumption as a central sacrament. How did these two traditions, both originating in the Hebrew Bible's cult of blood sacrifices, veer off in such different directions? With his characteristic wit and erudition, David Biale traces the continuing, changing, and often clashing roles of blood as both symbol and substance through the entire sweep of Jewish and Christian history from Biblical times to the present.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520253049 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 09 Nov 2007 |
DEWEY: | 296.396 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 299 |
Weight: | 542g |
Height: | 241mm |
Width: | 159mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |