Just to refresh what is the background of Aftonbladet’s article: my article about the age-old conspirational theories of blood-thirsty Jews slaugthering children, Bakgrunden till myten om den blodtörstige juden at Newsmill. Unfortunately only in Swedish… sorry.
Coming back to Aftonbladet’s infamous article by Daniel Boström, there was an attempt by its cultural editor Åsa Linderborg to close the debate, summarising that Aftonbladet was right and its critics were wrong (En svart paradox. Åsa Linderborg om organstölderna och medlöparna). She suggests that the fact that the Israeli Pathologist Yehuda Hiss admitted to, [...]
When evaluating the work of a scholarly discipline, understanding the symbolic world—the though world—of the scholars it is necessary to understand the time in which they live. Since my work over the last 8–9 years have been to understand of German exegetes construct Jews and Judaism, I also need to explore their views of ethnicity, [...]
My friend Roar Sørensen has added a comment to some comments on the blog. Thank you! I think it is very important, and today not very controversial, to state that “Jesus fit within the Judaism of his day.” Even though I think this statement should be further qualified, this represents quite a broad consensus. In [...]