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Wilson sets out to answer an important historical question: are Christians uniquely obsessed with blood? In pursuit of this question, he offers a compelling and engaging account of the theological and social power of blood within early Christianity. Drawing upon an impressive array of ancient sources, Wilson persuasively narrates the peculiar ways early Christians adapted pre-existing theories of blood’s power in order to imagine and effect new modes of kinship. With lively prose, Wilson has provided a robust and accessible framework for understanding the difference “blood difference” made in Greco-Roman antiquity and, in so doing, he has established a new standard reading of early Christian hematology. * John David Penniman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Health Humanities Initiative, Bucknell University, USA *

Wilson sets out to answer an important historical question: are Christians uniquely obsessed with blood? In pursuit of this question, he offers a compelling and engaging account of the theological and social power of blood within early Christianity. Drawing upon an impressive array of ancient sources, Wilson persuasively narrates the peculiar ways early Christians adapted pre-existing theories of blood’s power in order to imagine and effect new modes of kinship. With lively prose, Wilson has provided a robust and accessible framework for understanding the difference ‘blood difference’ made in Greco-Roman antiquity and, in so doing, he has established a new standard reading of early Christian hematology. * John David Penniman, associate professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Health Humanities Initiative, Bucknell University *

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Allen Wilson is an independent scholar with a PhD in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity from Fordham University.

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