Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Raʻanan S. Boustan, Alex P. Jassen, Calvin J. Roetzel. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2010. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 286 p.) :  ill. 
<br/><br/> Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 6-8, 2007 at the University of Minnesota. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-264) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789047444787 (electronic bk.) 9047444787 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Violence in the Bible--Congresses.<br/>Violence--Religious aspects--Judaism--History of doctrines--Congresses.<br/>Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Congresses.<br/>RELIGION / General
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS680.V55  / V56 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>220.8/3036