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In the history of Christian hostility toward Jews, historian Cohen discerns the consequences of a condemnatory image: the Jew as Christ killer. That image, Cohen acknowledges, originates in the New Testament, especially the Gospel of John. But careful investigation identifies a chain of theologians and clerics who have elaborated the image of Jews as deicides to advance their own cultural interests. Such Christian leaders have thus made the faith's most visible symbol--the cross--a visual indictment of a beleaguered minority. That indictment has grown particularly ugly when amplified by lurid fantasies about Jews performing bloody rituals of human sacrifice and cannibalism. Closer to the cultural mainstream, the Christian imagination has demonized the Messiah-murdering Jew in devotional woodcuts, street plays, and modern cinema. Yet when Jews have responded to this ominous imagery, they have, surprisingly, sometimes claimed the cross as a symbol of their own suffering. No wonder modern Christians have struggled to reassess a cultural history in which their doctrines have incubated anti-Semitic atrocities. Jews and Christians alike will find much here to ponder. Bryce Christensen
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"Cohen offers readers a lucid and sophisticated understanding of the age-old phenomenon of anti-Semitism. From its earliest history to Mel Gibson, Cohen explores the issues which have allowed this hateful notion to persist. It is a book which is fascinating, frightening, and important. It will be of interest to both the specialist and the lay reader." -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving
"Jeremy Cohen shows exactly how the Christ-killer charge lodged, like a killer-virus, in the imagination of the West. Alas, he shows, also, how it remains a mortal problem for Christians, a threat to Jews -- a germ of further hatred. Meticulous truth-telling like Cohen's is the only antidote to this ancient plague." -- James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and House of War
"It would be hard to think of a more consequential myth in western history than that of the Jews as killers of Christ. Jeremy Cohen offers a highly readable examination of the myth from its inception almost two thousand years ago to its continued potent effects today. Replete with dozens of dramatic pictorial representations and making use of the latest scholarly research, Christ Killers offers absorbing, if chilling, reading." David I. Kertzer, author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and The Popes Against the Jews
"Christ Killers is a gripping account of a myth that has profoundly shaped Christian-Jewish relations for two thousand years. Jeremy Cohen's command of the subject--from the Gospels to Mel's Gibson's Passion--is magisterial." --James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare and the Jews and Oberammergau
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In the history of Christian hostility toward Jews, historian Cohen discerns the consequences of a condemnatory image: the Jew as Christ killer. That image, Cohen acknowledges, originates in the New Testament, especially the Gospel of John. But careful investigation identifies a chain of theologians and clerics who have elaborated the image of Jews as deicides to advance their own cultural interests. Such Christian leaders have thus made the faith's most visible symbol--the cross--a visual indictment of a beleaguered minority. That indictment has grown particularly ugly when amplified by lurid fantasies about Jews performing bloody rituals of human sacrifice and cannibalism. Closer to the cultural mainstream, the Christian imagination has demonized the Messiah-murdering Jew in devotional woodcuts, street plays, and modern cinema. Yet when Jews have responded to this ominous imagery, they have, surprisingly, sometimes claimed the cross as a symbol of their own suffering. No wonder modern Christians have struggled to reassess a cultural history in which their doctrines have incubated anti-Semitic atrocities. Jews and Christians alike will find much here to ponder. Bryce Christensen
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review
"Cohen offers readers a lucid and sophisticated understanding of the age-old phenomenon of anti-Semitism. From its earliest history to Mel Gibson, Cohen explores the issues which have allowed this hateful notion to persist. It is a book which is fascinating, frightening, and important. It will be of interest to both the specialist and the lay reader." -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving
"Jeremy Cohen shows exactly how the Christ-killer charge lodged, like a killer-virus, in the imagination of the West. Alas, he shows, also, how it remains a mortal problem for Christians, a threat to Jews -- a germ of further hatred. Meticulous truth-telling like Cohen's is the only antidote to this ancient plague." -- James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and House of War
"It would be hard to think of a more consequential myth in western history than that of the Jews as killers of Christ. Jeremy Cohen offers a highly readable examination of the myth from its inception almost two thousand years ago to its continued potent effects today. Replete with dozens of dramatic pictorial representations and making use of the latest scholarly research, Christ Killers offers absorbing, if chilling, reading." David I. Kertzer, author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara and The Popes Against the Jews
"Christ Killers is a gripping account of a myth that has profoundly shaped Christian-Jewish relations for two thousand years. Jeremy Cohen's command of the subject--from the Gospels to Mel's Gibson's Passion--is magisterial." --James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare and the Jews and Oberammergau
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