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Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)

Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 305

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of the bells ofSolomons temple. Curiously enough, the scoffingpoet took a religious turn in the fiftieth year of hisage, and became himself a diligent and devoutcollector of religious relics. Coarse caricatures and obscene characterizationsof the Jews are quite common in Christianchurches. Thus on… … Satire on the Jews.(Wittenberg Parish Church.) of Jews, who are assiduously sucking her dugs tothe dispossession and great discomfort of her own young. Behind thesow stands a rabbi,who, Hfting her rightleg with one hand,and holding her bythe tail with theother, earnestly en-deavours to peer intoher…

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