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Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
Jewish Dogs An Image and Its Interpreters - Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
Author: Kenneth Stow
Jewish Dogs is not a study of ?anti-Semitism? or ?anti-Judaism.? Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric?and sometimes not so metaphoric?dogs. The dog has for millennia been the focus of impurity, and Catholicism fosters doctrines of physical purity that go hand in hand w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804752817
ISBN-10: 0804752818
Publication Date: 3/22/2006
Pages: 344
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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