Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity / edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Alex P. Jassen, Calvin J. Roetzel.
Contributor(s): Boustan, Raʻanan S
| Jassen, Alex P | Roetzel, Calvin J
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TextPublisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010Description: xi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004180284 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9004180281 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Violence in the Bible -- Congresses | Violence -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History of doctrines -- Congresses | Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- CongressesDDC classification: 220.8/3036 LOC classification: BS680.V55 | V56 2010Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 6-8, 2007 at the University of Minnesota.
"Also published as Volume 17, Nos. 1-2 (2009) of Brill's journal Biblical Interpretation."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction : violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity / 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.