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

Contributor(s): Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 286 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9789047444787 (electronic bk.)
  • 9047444787 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity.DDC classification:
  • 220.8/3036 22
LOC classification:
  • BS680.V55 V56 2010eb
Online resources:
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.
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Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 6-8, 2007 at the University of Minnesota.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-264) and indexes.

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.

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