Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity
This volume analyzes the various and overlapping discourses of a oereligious violencea that emerged within Jewish and Christian culture in the Roman world. Toward this end, the nine papers collected here address both the presence of violence within the authoritative scriptural traditions of early Ju...
Otros Autores: | , , |
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
2010.
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31245687*spi |
Sumario: | This volume analyzes the various and overlapping discourses of a oereligious violencea that emerged within Jewish and Christian culture in the Roman world. Toward this end, the nine papers collected here address both the presence of violence within the authoritative scriptural traditions of early Judaism and Christianity and the redeployment of these older traditions to represent, legitimate, and indeed sacralize violence. Individual papers focus on the specific social and historical contexts from which these texts emerged, while the volume as a whole highlights the patterns of textual practic. |
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Notas: | Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 6-8, 2007 at the University of Minnesota. |
Descripción Física: | xi, 286 p. : il |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [260]-264) e índice. |
ISBN: | 9789047444787 |