By Catherine Sider Hamilton

during this booklet, Catherine Sider Hamilton introduces a brand new lens in which to view the demise of Jesus in Matthew. utilizing the idea that of 'innocent blood', she situates the demise of Jesus inside a paradigm of purity and toxins, one who used to be vital within the Hebrew Scriptures and early Judaism from the second one Temple to the rabbis. Hamilton lines the topic of blameless blood in Matthew's narrative in terms of Jewish traditions of interpretation, one (in moment Temple literature) reflecting at the tale of Cain and Abel; the opposite (chiefly in rabbinic literature) at the blood of Zechariah. 'Innocent blood' yields a imaginative and prescient that resists the dichotomies (intra muros vs additional muros, rejection vs redemption) that experience characterised the talk, a imaginative and prescient within which either judgment and redemption - an finish of exile - should be actual. 'Innocent blood' bargains a brand new procedure not just to the which means of Jesus' dying in Matthew but additionally to the vexed query of the Gospel's perspective towards modern Judaism.

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