sexuality and difference in early Christian texts /
Susanna Drake.
1st ed.
Philadelphia :
PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,
2013.
1 online resource (176 pages) :
illustrations
Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-163) and index.
Introduction -- The making of carnal Isreal: Paul, Barnabas, Justin -- Origin reads Jewishness -- Sexal/textual corruption: Early Christian interpretations of Susanna and the Elders -- "A synagogue of Malakoi and Pornai": John Chrysostom's sermons against the Jews.
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This book explores the sexual slander of Jews in Christian texts from the first through fifth centuries. These early Christian representations of Jewish sexuality reveal how Church fathers used accusations of fleshliness, bestiality, and licentiousness as strategies to differentiate the "spiritual" Christian from the "carnal" Jew.
JSTOR
22573/ctt3bb6m8
0812245202
Christianity and other religions-- Judaism-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history-- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.