Jewish Dogs: An Image and Its Interpreters
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 is, at once, the Eucharist and the collective Christian...
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This book is a study of Catholic teachings on purity, and the anxiety these teachings have generated with respect to relations with the Jews since the time of St. Paul.
Introduction : equality, supersession, and anxiety11Ambivalence and continuity372The Bollandists and their work553Richard of Pontoise and Philip Augustus754The Jewish version : the Bollandist reconstruction vindicated995A usable past1196Purity and its discontents1337Denouement158App. 1Bollandist and parallel texts177App. 2Translation of the Blois letters198
