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Title Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity / edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Alex P. Jassen, Calvin J. Roetzel
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Raʻanan S. Boustan, Alex P. Jassen, Calvin J. Roetzel -- The Dead Sea scrolls and violence : sectarian formation and eschatological imagination / Alex P. Jassen -- The eschatological arena : Roman violence in fantasies of the end times / Kimberly B. Stratton -- The language of war (2 Cor 10:1-6) and the language of weakness (2 Cor 11:21b-13:10) / Calvin J. Roetzel -- Violence as sign in the fourth gospel / Jennifer A. Glancy -- Clemency as cruelty : forgiveness and force in the dying prayers of Jesus and Stephen / Shelly Matthews -- Reconsidering the book and the sword : a rhetoric of passivity in rabbinic hermeneutics / Beth A. Berkowitz -- Christian martyrdom and the "dialect of the Holy Scriptures" : the literal, the allegorical, the martyrological / Margaret M. Mitchell -- Immolating emperors : spectacles of imperial suffering and the making of a Jewish minority culture in late antiquity / Raʻanan S. Boustan -- Martyrdom, Jesus' passion and barbarism / Jan Willem van Henten
Summary This volume analyzes the various and overlapping discourses of a oereligious violencea that emerged within Jewish and Christian culture in the Roman world. Toward this end, the nine papers collected here address both the presence of violence within the authoritative scriptural traditions of early Judaism and Christianity and the redeployment of these older traditions to represent, legitimate, and indeed sacralize violence. Individual papers focus on the specific social and historical contexts from which these texts emerged, while the volume as a whole highlights the patterns of textual practic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-264) and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Neues Testament. idszbz
Subject Violence in the Bible -- Congresses
Violence -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History of doctrines -- Congresses
Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Congresses
RELIGION -- General.
Violence in the Bible
Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
Gewalt.
Frühjudentum.
Literatur.
Frühchristentum.
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Boustan, Raʻanan S., 1971-
Jassen, Alex P.
Roetzel, Calvin J.
ISBN 9789047444787
9047444787