Reckless Rites : : Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence /

Reckless Rites : : Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence / / Elliott Horowitz.

Historical accounts of Jewish violence--particularly against Christians--have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. Others have discounted, dismissed, or simply ignored the evidence, often for apologetic purposes. In Reckless Rites, Ell...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
VerfasserIn:
Horowitz, Elliott,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE.BIBLICAL LEGACIES
  • 1. The Book of Esther
  • 2. A Pair of Queens
  • 3. Mordecai's Reckless Refusal
  • 4. The Eternal Haman
  • 5.Amalek
  • PART TWO. JEWS LIVING DANGEROUSLY
  • 6. "The Fascination of the Abomination"
  • 7. Mild Men or Wild Men?
  • 8. Ancient Jewish Violence and Modern Scholarship
  • 9. Purim, Carnival, and Violence
  • 10. Local Purims and the Invention of Tradition
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Similar Items