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    612-822-4611

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Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English

Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English

Pareles, Mo

Hardcover

Literary CriticismReligion General Judaism

ISBN10: 1487550677
ISBN13: 9781487550677
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jan 18 2024
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Early English culture depended on a Judaism translated away from Jews. Revealing the importance of Jewish law to the workings of early Christian England, Nothing Pure presents a Jewish revision of the history of English Bible translation.


The book illuminates the paradoxical process by which the abjection and dehumanization of Jews, a bitter milestone in the history of European racism, was first articulated in the cultural translation of Jewish literature. It locates Old English Bible translation within the history of cultural translation, so that instead of appearing as the romantically liberated fragments of a suppressed mode of literacy, these authorized and semi-authorized vernacular works can be seen as privileged texts appropriating a Jewish source culture into an English Christian host culture.

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