Language:
French
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Recherches de Science Religieuse
Angaben zur Quelle:
85,2 (1997) 167-175
Keywords:
Cain
;
Abel
;
Cyril,
;
New Testament. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Reprints, in French translation, Cyril of Alexandria's commentary (in "Glaphyra in Genesim") on the biblical episode of Cain and Abel, focusing on how the 5th-century Greek bishop of Alexandria identified the Jewish people with Cain, and Jesus with Abel. This allegorical interpretation became part of the Christian anti-Jewish tradition and legitimated the persecution of the Jews. States that today, Christian theology and exegesis have denounced this interpretation, which transforms the victim into the executioner.
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