Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters

by Kenneth R. Stow

Jewish Dogs is not a study of "anti-Semitism" or "anti-Judaism." Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric--and sometimes not so metaphoric--dogs. The dog has for millennia been the focus of impurity, and Catholicism fosters doctrines of physical purity that go hand in hand with those of ritual purity. The purity is that of the "one loaf" spoken of by Paul in Corinthians that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804752818
• ISBN13: 9780804752817
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"