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

Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity / edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Alex P. Jassen, Calvin J. Roetzel.

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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Boustan, Raʻanan S., 1971-, Jassen, Alex P., Roetzel, Calvin J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Subjects:
Violence in the Bible > Congresses.
Violence > Religious aspects > Judaism > History of doctrines > Congresses.
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Congresses.
Violence in the Bible.
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-264) and indexes.
ISBN:9789047444787
9047444787

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