Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol between Jews and Christians.By David Biale. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xiiiþ299 pp. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.

摘要

Since his first book, an analysis of the theme of “counter-history” innGershom Scholem’s studies of Jewish mysticism (Gershom Scholem:nKabbalah and Counter-History [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UniversitynPress, 1979]), David Biale has been pre-occupied with uncovering andninterpreting the latent, unacknowledged forces that underlie the publicndiscourse of Jewish tradition. The present volume builds upon earliernstudies, such as Eros and the Jews (New York: Basic Books, 1992) andnPower and Powerlessness in Jewish History (New York: Schocken Books,n1986), deftly uncovering the powerfully over-determined, symbolicnmeanings of blood in Jewish ritual, religious, and political thought fromnancient to modern times.