Biblical curses and the displacement of tradition /
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| Author / Creator: | Britt, Brian M., 1964- |
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| Imprint: | Sheffield [England] : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011. |
| Description: | x, 309 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Bible in the modern world, 1747-9630 ; 34 Bible in the modern world ; 34. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8435101 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the displacement of biblical curses
- Part I. Biblical curses
- Covenant curses as models of displacement
- Identity and ethnicity in biblical curses
- Cursing the day, cursing the self : Job 3 and Jeremiah 20
- Part II. Early Modern cursing
- Power and profanity : cursing in seventeenth-century England
- Broadside ballads, Lyrical Ballads, and the Wandering Jew
- Nietzsche and Freud, cursing moderns
- Part III. The contemporary legacy of biblical curses
- Biblical curses in American fiction : Hurston and O'Connor
- Erasing Amalek : Derrida, negative theology, and biblical erasure
- Curses left and right : speech-act theory, hate speech, and religious freedom.