Innocent Blood and the End of Exile
by
Catherine Sider Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
In this book, Catherine Sider Hamilton introduces a new lens through which to view the death of Jesus in Matthew. Using the concept of 'innocent blood', she situates the death of Jesus within a paradigm of purity and pollution, one that was central in the Hebrew Scriptures and early Judaism from the...