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Article: Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2008
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Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen. By Jeremy Cohen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii + 320 pp. $29.95 cloth.
Throughout his distinguished scholarly career, Jeremy Cohen has explored the perplexing and painful relationship between Jews and Christians in antiquity and the Middle Ages. In his latest work, Cohen unpacks the claim that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ. According to Cohen, over the last two millennia the Christ-killer myth has been essential to the development of anti-Judaism, anti-Semitism, Christianity, and western culture. In fact, "Christianity needed the Jews to serve as the ...