Sanctified Aggression: Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence

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List of Figures List of Contributors Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Klaas Spronk: The Daughter of Jephthah: Changing Views on God, Man, and Violence in Plays and Oratorios since George Buchanan Chapter 2 Yvonne M. Sherwood: Textual Carcasses and Isaac's Scar, or What Jewish Interpretation Makes of the Violence that Almost Takes Place on Mount Moriah Chapter 3 Hugh S. Pyper: Fleshing out the Text Chapter 4 Malachie Munyaneza: Genocide in the Name of 'Saivation': The Combined Contribution of Biblical Translation/Interpretation and Indigenous Myth to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide Chapter 5 Athalya Brenner: the Rivers of Babylon (Psalm 137), or between Victim and Perpetrator Chapter 6 Alastair G Hunter: (De)nominating Amalek: Racist Stereotyping in the Bible and the Justification of Discrimination Chapter 7 Tod Linafelt: Purity and Danger at the End of the World: Priestly and Prophetic Paradigms in Contemporary Apocalyptic Visions Timothy K. Beal: The White Supremacist Bible and the Phineas Priesthood Chapter 9 David Jasper: Jesus the Actor: Edwin Morgan's A.D. A Trilogy on the Life of Jesus (2000) Chapter 10 Jeremy Punt: Messianic victims or victimised Messiah? Biblical allusion and violence in The Matrix. Chapter 11 Leigh Gibson: The Making of Modern Martyrs: The Martyrs of Columbine Chapter 12 Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele: The Tyranny of the Martyr Violence and Victimization in Martyrdom Discourse and the Movies of Lars von Trier Chapter 13 Jan Willem van Henten: Internet Martyrs and Violence: Victims and/or Perpetrators? Chapter 14 Jonneke Bekkenkamp: Violence and Final Vocabularies. On mapping actual hopes and beliefs Bibliography Indexes

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