Jewish blood reality and metaphor in history, religion, and culture

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Jewish blood' : an introduction / MitchellL B. Hart -- Blood and belief : an introduction to a Jewish symbol / David Biale -- We have never been Jewish : an essay in asymmetric hematology / Gil Anidjar -- "By the blood that you shed you are guilty" : perspectives on female blood in Leviticus and Ezekiel / Elizabeth W. Goldstein -- The topography of blood in Mishnah Yoma / Michael D. Swartz -- God will see the blood : sin, punishment, and atonement in the Jewish/Christian discourse / Israel J. Yuval -- Pharaoh's bloodbath : medieval European Jewish thoughts about leprosy, disease, and blood therapy / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner -- The blood libel in Solomon ibn Verga's Shevet Yehudah / Jeremy Cohen -- The symbolic power of blood-letting : Bernard Picart's La circoncision des juifs portugais / Hilet Surowitz -- Blood and myth in the thought of Franz Rosenzweig / Hagai Dagan -- "Man's red soup" : blood and the art of Esau in the poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg / Neta Stahl -- The "blood motif" in the struggle for political recognition : Zionist "dissidents" contest exclusion / Udi Lebel -- Mezizah : the controversy over the manner of dealing with circumcision blood among contemporary Orthodox Jews / Ira Robinson.