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Christ killers : the Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the big screen by Cohen, Jeremy is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Christians Believe That Christ's Death Redeems And Forgives. Yet The Same Blood Shed On The Cross Has Been Used To Stain Jews With Lasting, Incomparable Guilt. The Gospel Narratives Of The Passion Cast The Jews As Responsible, Directly And Indirectly, For The Death Of The Son Of God. The Stigma Of 'christ Killer'--the Notion That All Jews, At All Times And In All Places, Share In The Collective Responsibility For The Crucifixion--has Plagued Jews Ever Since And Is The Source Of Much Christian Anti-semitism. Jeremy Cohen Traces The Christ-killer Myth From Ancient Times To The Present Day, Touching On The Gospels And Their Roots In Hebrew Scripture, Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ, And Much In Between. The Greatest Of The Church Fathers, The Crusades, The Notorious Blood Libels Of The Middle Ages, The Reforms Of The Second Vatican Council, Christian Mysticism, Art, And Popular Piety, Passion Plays, And Modern Film All Have A Place In This Well-documented, Richly Illustrated Volume. Cohen Seeks Neither To Explain Jesus' Death Nor To Pass Judgment On Anyone For It, But Rather To Understand How The Identification Of Jews As Christ Killers Has Functioned As An Edifying 'myth' For
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- Author
- Cohen, Jeremy
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195178418
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Christian, History, Religion
- Rating
- 3.4 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14