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Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) ix + 313 pp
Originating in a course that Cohen has taught for twenty years, Christ Killers traces the myth of the Jew as Christ killer from its origins in the context of the Gospel writers through its development into the early modern period and examines its various present-day manifestations
Augustine argued that the Jews were unaware that they were committing deicide and cannot be held responsible for the death of God. This motif of Jewish blindness dominated medieval thought and served as a basis for Jewish toleration right up through the late 11th century, when heightened awareness of the individual, the rise of universities, and the onset of the Crusades contributed to an awakened curiosity in the status of the Jews in Christendom. This led to the reconsideration and restructuring of the Christ killer myth: in the 12th and 13th centuries Peter Lombard argued that the Jews killed Jesus out of envy, and Aquinas conspicuously parted ways with Augustine in maintaining that Jewish ignorance was willful
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Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) ix + 313 pp. After examining how this polemic shaped Jewish and Christian interpretations of foundational stories such as the Sacrifice of Isaac and the Passover, Cohen analyzes the first clear example of the Christ killer myth in an Easter sermon of the second century bishop, Melito of Sardis.
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