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Sanctified Aggression Legacies of Biblical and Post Biblical Vocabularies of Violence Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 400 1st Edition by Jonneke Bekkenkamp, Yvonne Sherwood 9780567080707 0567080706

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Author(s): Jonneke Bekkenkamp, Yvonne Sherwood
ISBN(s): 9780567080707, 0567080706
Edition: 1
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Year: 2003
Language: english
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Author: Jonneke Bekkenkamp, Yvonne Sherwood

Sanctified Aggression allies itself neither with the easy assumption that religions are by definition violent (and that only the secular/humanist/humane can offer a place of refuge from the ravages of religious authority) nor with the equally facile opposing view that religion expresses the ‘best’ of human aspiration and that this best is always capable of diffusing or sublating the worst. Rather, it works from the premise that biblical, Jewish and Christian vocabularies continue to resonate, inspire and misfire. Some of the essays explore how these vocabularies and symbols have influenced, or resonate with, events such as the massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland (1941), the Rwandan Massacre (1994), the tragedy at Columbine High School (1999) and the emergence of the ‘Phineas Priesthood’ of white supremacists in North America. Other contributors examine how themes of martyrology, sacrifice and the messianic continue to circulate and mutate in literature, music, drama and film. The collective conclusion is that it is not possible to control biblical and religious violence by simply identifying canonical trouble-spots, then fencing them off with barbed wire or holding peace summits a

Table of contents:

  1. Introduction: The Thin Blade of Difference between Real Swords and Words about ‘Sharp-Edged Iron Thi
  2. The Daughter of Jephthah: Changing Views on God, Man, and Violence in Plays and Oratorios since Geor
  3. Textual Carcasses and Isaac’s Scar, or What Jewish Interpretation Makes of the Violence that Almost
  4. Fleshing Out the Text
  5. Genocide in the Name of ‘Salvation’: The Combined Contribution of Biblical Translation/Interpretatio
  6. ‘On the Rivers of Babylon’ (Psalm 137), or between Victim and Perpetrator
  7. (De)nominating Amalek: Racist Stereotyping in the Bible and the Justification of Discrimination
  8. Purity and Danger at the End of the World: Priestly and Prophetic Paradigms in Contemporary Apocalyp
  9. The White Supremacist Bible and the Phineas Priesthood
  10. Jesus the Actor: Edwin Morgan’s: A.D. A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus (2000)
  11. Messianic Victims or Victimized Messiah? Biblical Allusion and Violence in The Matrix
  12. The Making of Modern Martyrs: The Martyrs of Columbine
  13. The Tyranny of the Martyr: Violence and Victimization in Martyrdom Discourse and the Movies of Lars
  14. Internet Martyrs and Violence: Victims and/or Perpetrators?
  15. Violence and Final Vocabularies: On Mapping Actual Hopes and Beliefs

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