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Christian. Library and Information Science professional. Stay-at-home parent. Storyteller. Trans gal (she/her). Likes foxes.
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Today I learned that blood libel was pushed by Apion, an Alexandrian Greek, sometime "in the first decades of the Common Era." I hate this. I have a feeling that this book, A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism, will be constantly inflaming me to righteous indignation.
Photo of an excerpt from page 15 of A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism, in the chapter "Beginnings (586 BCE - 135 CE)." The focus is on a paragraph that reads: "In the first decades of the Common Era, Apion, a Greek lawyer in Alexandria, wrote and spoke against Jews. He claimed that they were a 'diseased race of lepers' and a 'godless' people who worshiped the head of an ass in their Temple in Jerusalem. He insisted that once a year, Jews kidnapped a Greek and fattened him up so that he could be sacrificed to their deity. These and other false charges would find their way from Alexandria to Rome and, eventually, into the works of Roman and, later, Christian writers." In the margin next to the paragraph is a line marking the paragraph and written in descending order: ㅠ.ㅠ blood libel x.x
February 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM