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 Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practice in Early Judaism and Christianity

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xii)   (505K)
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    • Contents
    • Preface
    • Foreword
  • Violence, Scripture, And Textual Practice In Early Judaism And Christianity (1-12) by Ra'Anan S. Boustan, Alex P. Jassen and Calvin J. Roetzel   (482K)
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    • Scripture And Violence
    • Aims And Contents
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls And Violence: Sectarian Formation And Eschatological Imagination (13-44) by Alex P. Jassen   (608K)
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    • Introduction
    • Scarce Resources And The Origins Of Religious Violence
    • Scripture And Violence
    • Sacred Space And Violence
    • Group Privileging, Salvation, And Violence
    • Conclusion
  • The Eschatological Arena: Reinscribing Roman Violence In Fan Tasies Of The End Times (45-76) by Kimberly B. Stratton   (585K)
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    • Introduction
    • The Roman Arena
    • Spectacles Of Eschatological Judgment
    • Voyeurism
    • Vision And Subversion
    • Conclusion
  • The Language Of War (2 Cor. 10:1-6) And The Language Of Weakness (2 Cor. 11:21b-13:10) (77-98) by Calvin J. Roetzel   (519K)
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    • Introduction
    • Two Interpretive Models For Parsing Paul’s Language Of War And Its Afterlife
    • The “Brave” Warrior And His Language Of War
    • The Fool And His Language Of Weakness
    • The Fool’s Language Of Weakness
    • Conclusion
  • Violence As Sign In The Fourth Gospel (99-116) by Jennifer A. Glancy   (489K)
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    • Bodies And Space
    • Jesus With A Whip
    • Violence As Sign
    • Histories Of Violence
  • Clemency As Cruelty: Forgiveness And Force In The Dying Prayers Of Jesus And Stephen (117-144) by Shelly Matthews   (547K)
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    • Luke 23:34a
    • Echoes Of Scripture In Luke 23:34a/Acts 7:60
    • Vengeance Overturned: Reading Luke’s Prayers Against The Martyr’s Cry
    • Mercy Perfected: Reading The Dying Forgiveness Prayers In Line With The Sermon On The Mount/Sermon On The Plain
    • Clemency As An Analogue For The Dying Forgiveness Prayers In Luke
  • Reconsidering The Book And The Sword: A Rhetoric Of Pas Sivity In Rabbinic Hermeneutics (145-173) by Beth A. Berkowitz   (537K)
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    • The Book And The Sword
    • Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 52b: “What Can I Do? For Behold The Torah Said …”
    • A Rhetoric Of Passivity: “What Can I Do? For Behold The Sages Said …”
    • Tracing The Idiom: Judah Ben Tabbai In The Mekhilta
    • Judah Ben Tabbai’s Problem: Deut. 19:15
    • Rabbi Judah’s Problem: Lev. 18:3
    • Problems With Passivity: The Babylonian Talmud’s Redactional Voice
    • Babylonian Talmud Trajectories
    • Conclusions
  • Christian Martyrdom And The "Dialect Of The Holy Scriptures": The Literal, The Allegorical, The Martyrological (174-203) by Margaret M. Mitchell   (809K)
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    • The Rhetorical Construction Of The Literal/Allegorical Divide
    • Tertullian Of Carthage
    • Origen Of Caesarea
    • Conclusions And Implications
  • Immolating Emperors: Spectacles Of Imperial Suffering And The Making Of A Jewish Minority Culture In Late Antiquity (204-234) by Ra‘Anan S. Boustan   (547K)
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    • Introduction
    • Punishment Of The Wicked Ruler In Early Jewish And Christian Sources
    • Jews On Fire: The Figure Of The Jew As Troublemaker In Early Byzantine Literature
    • The Eschatological Fate Of The Emperor In Rabbinic And Related Sources, 450–700 CE
    • Conclusion
  • Martyrdom, Jesus' Passion And Barbarism (235-259) by Jan Willem Van Henten   (530K)
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    • Introduction
    • The Concept Of Barbarism
    • Barbarism In 2 Maccabees 7
    • Barbarism And The Passion Narratives
    • Paradise Now
    • Conclusion
  • Select Bibliography (260-264)   (452K)
  • Index Of Ancient Sources (265-280)   (470K)
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    • Hebrew Bible
    • Septuagint (LXX)
    • Hebrew Bible Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha
    • Dead Sea Scrolls
    • Classical Authors
    • New Testament
    • New Testament Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha
    • Other Ancient & Medieval Christian Authors/Works
    • Roman Law
    • Rabbinic Literature: Mishnah, Tosefta & Talmuds
    • Minor Tractates, Midrash, Heikhalot Literature & Hebrew Apocalypses
    • Medieval Jewish Authors
  • Index Of Subjects (281-288)   (471K)