caa a22 4500 388090707 CHVBK 20180307125249.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3170205 doi S000964070008570X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3170205 Shoemaker Stephen J. Stephen J. Shoemaker is National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Jerusalem. "Let us Go and Burn Her Body”: The Image of the Jews in the Early Dormition Traditions [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen J. Shoemaker] In his recent book, Mary through the Centuries, Jaroslav Pelikan notes that "one of the most profound and persistent roles of the Virgin Mary in history has been her function as a bridge builder to other traditions, other cultures, and other religions.” This is particularly true of the late ancient Near East, where Mary's significance frequently reached across various cultural and religious boundaries. But it is equally true that Mary often served to define boundaries between traditions, cultures, and religions. As Klaus Schreiner explains in his similarly recent book, Maria: Jungfrau, Mutter, Herrsherin, "Brücken, die Juden und Christen miteinander hätten verbinden können, schlug Maria im Mittelalter nicht Maria trennte, grenzte aus.” In the rather substantial chapter that follows, Schreiner presents perhaps the best overview of Mary's role as a focus of Jewish/Christian conflict in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Scholars have long recognized the role played by the Virgin and her cult in the exclusion of Jews from Christian society during the Western Middle Ages, Marian piety being, along with eucharistic devotion, the most anti-Jewish aspect of medieval piety. Throughout the medieval period, and likewise continuing into the Renaissance and Reformation, the Virgin Mary figured prominently in Christian anti-Jewish literature, where the (alleged) Jewish disparagement of Virgin Mary "weighed heavier than thefts of the host, ritual murders, and ... ell poisoning.” Copyright © American Society of Church History 1999 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/4(1999-12), 775-823 0009-6407 68:4<775 1999 68 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3170205 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3170205 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Shoemaker Stephen J. Stephen J. Shoemaker is National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Jerusalem NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/4(1999-12), 775-823 0009-6407 68:4<775 1999 68 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge