Sanctified aggression : legacies of biblical and post biblical vocabularies of violence / edited by Jonneke Bekkenkamp and Yvonne Sherwood.
Contributor(s): Bekkenkamp, Jonneke
| Sherwood, Yvonne
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TextSeries: BTC (Series): 3.; Journal for the study of the Old Testament: 400.Publisher: London ; New York : T&T Clark International, 2003Description: xii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0567080706; 0567080609 (pbk.)Subject(s): Violence in the Bible | Violence -- Religious aspects | Aggressiveness in the Bible | Aggressiveness -- Religious aspects | Martyrdom | Bible -- UseBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-240) and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 East | BS680 .V55 S36 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903028575 |
"A Continuum imprint."
Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-240) and indexes.
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.