Flesh Becomes Word: A Lexicography of the Scapegoat or, the History of an Idea

Contents

Contents ix Preface 1 chapter 1. Rites of Riddance and Substitution 9 chapter 2. Ancient Types and Soteriologies 23 chapter 3. The Sulfurous and Sublime 33 chapter 4. Economies of Blood 49 chapter 5. The Damnation of Christ’s Soul 63 chapter 6. Anthropologies of the Scapegoat 77 chapter 7. The Goat and the Idol 89 chapter 8. A Figure in Flux 99 chapter 9. Early Modern Texts of Persecution 121 chapter 10. A Latent History of the Modern World 131 conclusion. The Plowbeam and the Loom 135 appendix. Katharma and Peripsēma Testimonia 143 Notes 185 Bibliography ...