Sanctified aggression : legacies of biblical and post biblical vocabularies of violence /: legacies of biblical and post biblical vocabularies of violence. (©2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jonneke Bekkenkamp and Yvonne Sherwood.
• Other Names: Bekkenkamp, Jonneke; Sherwood, Yvonne
• Contents: Introduction: The thin blade of difference between real swords and words about 'sharp-edged iron things': reflections on how people use the Word / Yvonne Sherwood, Jonneke Bekkenkamp -- The daughter of Jephthah: changing views on God, man, and violence in plays and oratorios since George Buchanan / Klaas Spronk -- Textual carcasses and Isaac's scar, or what Jewish interpretation makes of the violence that almost takes place on Mt Moriah / Yvonne Sherwood -- Fleshing out the text / Hugh S. Pyper -- Genocide in the name of 'salvation': the combined contribution of biblical translation/interpretation and indigenous myth to the 1994 Rwandan genocide / Malachie Munyaneza -- 'On the rivers of Babylon' (Psalm 137), or between victim and perpetrator / Athalya Brenner -- (De)nominating Amalek: racist stereotyping in the Bible and the justification of discrimination / Alastair G. Hunter -- Purity and danger at the end of the world: priestly and prophetic paradigms in contemporary apocalyptic visions / Tod Linafelt -- The white supremacist Bible and the Phineas priesthood / Timothy K. Beal -- Jesus the actor: Edwin Morgan's A.D.: a trilogy of plays on the life of Jesus (2000) / David Jasper -- Messianic victims or victimized Messiah?: biblical allusion and violence in The matrix / Jeremy Punt -- The making of modern martyrs: the martyrs of Columbine / Elizabeth Leigh Gibson -- The tyranny of the martyr: violence and victimization in martyrdom discourse and the movies of Lars von Trier -- Internet martyrs and violence: victims and/or perpetrators? / Jan Willem van Henten -- Violence and final vocabularies: on mapping actual hopes and beliefs / Jonneke Bekkenkamp.
• Publisher Details: London New York : T & T Clark International
• Publication Date: 2003
• Copyright Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 241.697; Violence in the Bible; Violence -- Religious aspects; Aggressiveness in the Bible; Aggressiveness -- Religious aspects; Martyrdom; Violence dans la Bible; Violence -- Aspect religieux; Agressivité dans la Bible; Agressivité -- Aspect religieux; Martyre; RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics; Antigo testamento; Bíblia (crítica e interpretação); Aggressiveness in the Bible; Aggressiveness -- Religious aspects; Martyrdom; Violence in the Bible; Violence -- Religious aspects; Geweld; Bijbel; Woordgebruik; Receptie; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567112774; 0567112772
• Related ISBNs: 0567080706; 0567080609; 9780567080707
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-240) and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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