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Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity /

This volume analyzes the various and overlapping discourses of a oereligious violencea that emerged within Jewish and Christian culture in the Roman world. Toward this end, the nine papers collected here address both the presence of violence within the authoritative scriptural traditions of early Ju...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boustan, Raʻanan S., 1971-, Jassen, Alex P., Roetzel, Calvin J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume analyzes the various and overlapping discourses of a oereligious violencea that emerged within Jewish and Christian culture in the Roman world. Toward this end, the nine papers collected here address both the presence of violence within the authoritative scriptural traditions of early Judaism and Christianity and the redeployment of these older traditions to represent, legitimate, and indeed sacralize violence. Individual papers focus on the specific social and historical contexts from which these texts emerged, while the volume as a whole highlights the patterns of textual practic.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-264) and indexes.
ISBN:9789047444787
9047444787