Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boustan, Raʻanan S., 1971-
• Jassen, Alex P.
• Roetzel, Calvin J.

Description

xi, 286 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Violence in the Bible > Congresses
• Violence > Religious aspects > Judaism > History of doctrines > Congresses
• Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 6-8, 2007 at the University of Minnesota.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9789004180284 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9004180281 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009032491

OCLC

• 430736542
• SCSB-11965353

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library