BOOK MARKS
Chicago Jewish Star, May, 2007 by Ages, Arnold
BOOK MARKS
AN IMPORTANT, GROUNDBREAKING AND epoch-making volume gets my vote (as presumptuous as it may sound this early in the year) for the best Jewish book of the year.
In Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion From the Bible to the Big Screen, by Jeremy Cohen (Oxford University Press, 2007, 313 pp., $29.95), Cohen has taken one of the ugliest libels in history - the deicide - and subjected it to an analysis so comprehensive and yet so fair-minded that readers will marvel at his equanimity, scholarly depth and detached demeanor.
This, despite the fact that the "Christ-killer" label attached to Jews in the Gospels and embellished by generations of Christian theologians and polemicists, has been used as a warrant for 20 centuries of mayhem and worse against...
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