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Article: Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen
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- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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JEREMY COHEN, Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). Pp. x + 313. $29.95.
Cohen argues that "Christianity needed the Jews to serve as the killers of Christ and repeatedly cast them in that role, regardless of what may or may not have happened" historically (p. 3). Understanding "myth" as an expression of "the ultimate truths and values of a community" (p. 16), he further holds that historical reconstructions of the events leading to Jesus' crucifixion are virtually irrelevant to the impact of the myth of Jews as Christ killers.
In part 1, "The Myth and Its Origins," C. introduces a recurrent theme: "Stories ...
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Article: Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800.(Book review)
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...Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800, by William Pencak...Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 321 pp. $29.95. Jews and Gentiles in Early America fills an important gap in the...America. It offers a community-by-community analysis of how Jews, a numerically insignificant but still visible ...
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