TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Villiers,Pieter
AU  - Van Henten,Jan Willem
TI  - Coping with violence in the new testament
T2  - Studies in theology and religion,
SN  - 9789004221055
AV  - BS2545.V55 
U1  - 225.8/3036 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Congresses
KW  - fast
KW  - Violence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Violence in the Bible
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and indexes; Religion, Bible and violence / Jan Willem van Henten -- Violence in the New Testament and the Roman Empire: Ambivalence, othering, agency / Jeremy Punt -- Paul's version of "turning the other cheek": Rethinking violence and tolerance / Andries van Aarde -- Violence in the Letter to the Galatians? / Francois Tolmie -- A godfighter becomes a fighter for God / Rob van Houwelingen -- Jesus and violence: an ideological-critical reading of the tenants in Mark 12:1-12 and Thomas 65 / Ernest van Eck -- The use of violence in punishing adultery in biblical texts : (Deuteronomy 22:13-29 and John 7:53-8:11) / Wim J.C. Weren -- Violence in a gospel of love / Jan van der Watt and Jacobus Kok -- Images of war and creation, of violence and non-violence in the Revelation of John / Paul B. Decock -- Unmasking and challenging evil: Exegetical perspectives on violence in Revelation 18 / Pieter G.R. de Villiers -- The eschatological battle according to the book of Revelation: Perspectives on Revelation 19:11-21 / Tobias Nicklas -- Hermeneutical perspectives on violence in the New Testament / Pieter G.R. de Villers
N2  - The present publication aims to contribute to the recent scholarly debate about the interconnections between violence and monotheistic religions by analysing the role of violence in the New Testament as well as by offering some hermeneutical perspectives on violence as it is articulated in the earliest Christian writings
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