Cargando…
Sanctified aggression : legacies of biblical and post biblical vocabularies of violence /
Sanctified Aggression allies itself neither with the easy assumption that religions are by definition violent (and that only the secular/humanist/humane can offer a place of refuge from the ravages of religious authority) nor with the equally facile opposing view that religion expresses the "be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
London ; New York :
T & T Clark International,
©2003.
|
| Colección: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;
400. BTC (Series) ; 3. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.