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1 Introducing the Question |
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3 | (29) |
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Matt 27:25 and the Intra-Muros/Extra-Muros Debate |
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5 | (8) |
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The Theme of Innocent Blood: Questions of Method and Approach |
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13 | (7) |
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20 | (3) |
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Innocent Blood in Matthew and Second Temple Jewish and Rabbinic Literature |
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23 | (6) |
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29 | (3) |
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2 Innocent Blood in the Gospel of Matthew: A Narrative-Critical Study |
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32 | (13) |
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Innocent Blood in the Passion Narrative |
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33 | (4) |
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Innocent Blood in the "Massacre of the Innocents" |
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37 | (4) |
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The Meaning of Innocent Blood through the Lens of the Blood of the Innocents: Scholarly Readings of 2:16--18 and 27:25 and an Alternative Proposition |
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41 | (1) |
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The Scope of Innocent Blood: The Question of Israel |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (1) |
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PART II INNOCENT BLOOD IN SECOND TEMPLE JEWISH AND RABBINIC LITERATURE |
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45 | (104) |
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3 1 Enoch and the Cosmic Sweep of Innocent Blood: From Cain and Blood to Flood and Judgment |
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47 | (24) |
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1 Enoch 6--11 and Genesis |
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48 | (11) |
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From Bloodshed to Flood: The Paradigm of Purity and Pollution |
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59 | (4) |
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Flood as Eschatological Cataclysm |
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63 | (2) |
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Cain/Blood-Flood/Judgment in Animal Apocalypse |
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65 | (4) |
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69 | (2) |
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4 Other Cain/Blood-Flood/Judgment Traditions |
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71 | (13) |
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84 | (12) |
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96 | (8) |
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104 | (9) |
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113 | (7) |
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120 | (7) |
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127 | (3) |
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5 The Blood of Zechariah in the Lives of the Prophets and Rabbinic Literature |
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130 | (19) |
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The Legend of Zechariah's Blood |
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132 | (4) |
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Innocent Blood: The Problem of Pollution and the Fate of the Land |
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136 | (11) |
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147 | (2) |
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PART III INNOCENT BLOOD AND THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW |
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149 | (80) |
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6 Zechariah Traditions and Cain/Blood-Flood/Judgment Traditions in Matthew |
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151 | (30) |
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152 | (5) |
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Innocent Blood and the Problem of Pollution |
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157 | (3) |
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The Blood of Abel and the Cain/Blood-Flood/Judgment Traditions |
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160 | (10) |
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The Influence of 1 Enoch! |
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170 | (6) |
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Innocent Blood, Flood, and Exile |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (2) |
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7 The Meaning of Innocent Blood in Matthew: Pollution and Purgation, Exile and Restoration |
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181 | (48) |
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The Death of Jesus in Matthew as a Saga of Innocent Blood |
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182 | (3) |
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Innocent Blood and the Fate of the People |
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185 | (6) |
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Exile and Innocent Blood in Matthew 2 |
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191 | (4) |
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Exile and Innocent Blood in Matthew 1: The Genealogy |
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195 | (8) |
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Why, After All, Exile? The Logic of Innocent Blood |
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203 | (3) |
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What of Salvation? The Crucifixion and Resurrection Narratives in Relation to the Problem of Innocent Blood and Exile |
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206 | (15) |
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"This is My Blood": Matt 23:35 and 26:28 |
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221 | (3) |
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Salvation for "His People" |
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224 | (3) |
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227 | (2) |
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229 | (8) |
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231 | (6) |
Appendix A Elements of Cain/blood-flood/judgment sequence in individual texts |
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237 | (1) |
Bibliography |
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238 | (19) |
Index of Biblical References |
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257 | (6) |
Index of the Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature |
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263 | (4) |
Index of Selected Subjects |
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