Violence Scripture And Textual Practice In Early Judaism And Christianity
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Violence Scripture and Textual Practices in Early Judaism and Christianity
Author | : Raanan Shaul Boustan,Alex P. Janssen,Calvin J. Roetzel |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004180284 |
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This volume analyzes the emergence of Jewish and Christian discourses of religious violence within their Roman imperial context with an emphasis on the shared textual practices through which authoritative scriptural traditions were redeployed to represent, legitimate, and indeed sacralize violence.
The War Scroll Violence War and Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature
Author | : Kipp Davis,Kyung S. Baek,Peter W. Flint,Dorothy Peters |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2015-10-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004301634 |
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This volume of collected essays reflects on various aspects of language, text, and interpretations of war and peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple Jewish literature, with special close attention set on the Qumran War Scroll.
The Things that Make for Peace
Author | : Jesse P. Nickel |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2021-02-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110703771 |
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This study offers fresh insight into the place of (non)violence within Jesus' ministry, by examining it in the context of the eschatologically-motivated revolutionary violence of Second Temple Judaism. The book first explores the connection between violence and eschatology in key literary and historical sources from Second Temple Judaism. The heart of the study then focuses on demonstrating the thematic centrality of Jesus’ opposition to such “eschatological violence” within the Synoptic presentations of his ministry, arguing that a proper understanding of eschatology and violence together enables appreciation of the full significance of Jesus’ consistent disassociation of revolutionary violence from his words and deeds. The book thus articulates an understanding of Jesus’ nonviolence that is firmly rooted in the historical context of Second Temple Judaism, presenting a challenge to the "seditious Jesus hypothesis"—the claim that the historical Jesus was sympathetic to revolutionary ideals. Jesus’ rejection of violence ought to be understood as an integral component of his eschatological vision, embodying and enacting his understanding of (i) how God’s kingdom would come, and (ii) what would identify those who belonged to it.
The Nonviolent Messiah
Author | : Simon J. Joseph |
Publsiher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2014-06-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451484434 |
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When scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the “messiah” and other redemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly or angelic figure. Missing from those discussions, Simon J. Joseph contends, are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic material—conceptions that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus’ own self-understanding.
Uncovering Violence
Author | : Amy Cottrill |
Publsiher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781646982189 |
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It is no surprise that the Bible is filled with stories of violence, having come into being through the crucible of trauma, cultural conflict, and warfare. But the more obvious acts of physical or sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible often overshadow its subtler forms throughout Scripture and belie the variety of perspectives on violence embedded in biblical narratives. This hinders readers' ability to recognize the full spectrum of human engagement with violence, both in texts and in their lived experiences. Uncovering Violence: Reading Biblical Narratives as an Ethical Project seeks to provide a theoretical vocabulary for the various forms that violence can take—including textual violence, interpretive violence, moral injury, and slow violence—and to offer a fresh ethical reading of violence in the biblical text. Focusing on four narratives from the Hebrew Bible, Cottrill uses the approach of narrative ethics to lay out the many ways that stories can make moral claims on readers, not by delivering a discrete "lesson" or takeaway but by making transformative contact with readers and involving them in a more embodied dialogue with the text. Exploring the narratives of Jael’s killing of Sisera, the toxic masculinity of Samson, environmental devastation and failures of legal systems in Ruth, and Abigail’s mediation with King David, Uncovering Violence presents strategies for reading that allow for this close encounter. In doing so, it helps prepare readers to better recognize, interpret, and even respond to violence and its many effects within and beyond the text.
Exiting Violence
Author | : Debora Tonelli,Gerard Michael J. Mannion |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110796827 |
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In the 20th and 21st centuries, where violence has scarred countless lives, the interplay between religion, politics, and conflict remains a complex web. Exiting Violence looks to untangle some of these knots, showing not only how faith can ignite bloodshed, but also how it can inspire peace and build bridges. Resulting from an international collaboration between the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, RESET-Dialogues Among Civilizations, and the Berkley Center for Religion Peace and World Affairs, this collection assesses the state of scholarship and explores the differing ways in which religion can contribute to societies and communities exiting situations of violence and hatred. From Biblical hermeneutics to Buddhism, from secularism to legal systems, Exiting Violence offers a nuanced and thought-provoking exploration of the multifaceted role religion plays in the human struggle for peace and justice.
The Dynamics of Violence and Revenge in the Hebrew Book of Esther
Author | : Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-03-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004337022 |
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In The Dynamics of Violence and Revenge, Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz presents an exegetical study of how the violence and revenge which are integral part of the Hebrew book of Esther structure the book and help passing on its message.
The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War
Author | : Margo Kitts |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2023-05-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781108858328 |
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This Companion offers a global, comparative history of the interplay between religion and war from ancient times to the present. Moving beyond sensationalist theories that seek to explain why 'religion causes war,' the volume takes a thoughtful look at the connection between religion and war through a variety of lenses - historical, literary, and sociological-as well as the particular features of religious war. The twenty-three carefully nuanced and historically grounded chapters comprehensively examine the religious foundations for war, classical just war doctrines, sociological accounts of religious nationalism, and featured conflicts that illustrate interdisciplinary expressions of the intertwining of religion and war. Written by a distinguished, international team of scholars, whose essays were specially commissioned for this volume, The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars of the history and sociology of religion and war, as well as other disciplines.