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1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 6-8, 2007 at the University of Minnesota. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-264) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Neues Testament. |
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Violence in the Bible -- Congresses.
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Violence in the Bible. |
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History of doctrines -- Congresses.
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. |
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Congresses.
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. |
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Boustan, Raʻanan S., 1971-
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Jassen, Alex P.
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Roetzel, Calvin J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004180284 (DLC) 2009032491 (OCoLC)430736542 |
| ISBN |
9789047444787 (electronic book) |
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9047444787 (electronic book) |
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9789004180284 |
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9004180281 |
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