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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / 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.