Jewish dogs
Subtitle: an image and its interpreters : continuity in the Catholic-Jewish encounter
By: Kenneth Stow.
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Relations -- Judaism; Blood accusation -- History; Judaism -- Relations -- Catholic Church; Bollandists
Description: 'Jewish Dogs' is not a study of 'anti-Semitism' or 'anti-Judaism'. Instead, this text argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric - and sometimes not so metaphoric - dogs.
Notes: Includes documents in Latin as well as documents translated into English from Hebrew and Latin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ambivalence and continuity; title: The Bollandists and their work; title: Richard of Pontoise and Philip Augustus; title: The Jewish version : the Bollandist reconstruction vindicated; title: A usable past; title: Purity and its discontents; title: Denouement.