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Cover 1 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Acknowledgments 12 Notes on Contributors 14 Abbreviations 18 Introduction: The Jew in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination 22 Defining the Jew: A Question of Race, Ethnicity, or Religion? 44 1 Anglo-Saxons, Israelites, Hebrews, and Jews 46 2 Nathan the Jew in the Old English Vindicta Salvatoris 59 The Jew in Anglo-Saxon Theology and Liturgy: Aspects of Language, Place, and Time 80 3 Hebraeam scire linguam: Bede’s Rhetoric of the Hebrew Truth 82 4 Building Anti-Semitism in Bede 98 5 Transition and Renewal: Jews and the Church Year in Anglo-Saxon England 127 Literary Types and Anglo-Saxon Audiences 148 6 Abraham’s Children: Jewish Promise and Christian Fulfilment 150 7 Time, Liturgy, and History in the Old English Elene 175 8 Jewish Magic and Christian Miracle in the Old English Andreas 186 Visual Media: Representations of Jews and Jewish Spaces 214 9 Hagar and Ishmael: The Uncanny and the Exile 216 10 King Edgar Leaping and Dancing before the Lord 238 11 “In those days”: Giants and the Giant Moses in the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch 256 Epilogue: Pre- and Post-Conquest Identifications: Continuity and Difference 282 12 Re

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Author
Samantha Zacher
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published
2016
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction

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