Sanctified aggression : legacies of biblical and post biblical vocabularies of violence /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : T & T Clark International, c2003. |
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| Description: | xii, 248 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 400 Bible in the twenty-first century series ; 3 Bible in the 21st century ; 3. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13253879 |
Table of 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 / Todd Penner, Caroline Vander Stichele
- Internet martyrs and violence: victims and/or perpetrators? / Jan Willem van Henten
- Violence and final vocabularies: on mapping actual hopes and beliefs / Jonneke Bekkenkamp.