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Paperback Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians Book

ISBN: 0520257987

ISBN13: 9780520257986

Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians

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Blood contains extraordinary symbolic power in both Judaism and Christianity--as 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...

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