Coping with Violence in the New Testament.
Title:
Coping with Violence in the New Testament.
Author:
de Villiers, Pieter G.R.
ISBN:
9789004221055
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Series:
Studies in Theology and Religion
Contents:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Introductory Essays -- Religion, Bible and Violence -- Violence in the New Testament and the Roman Empire: Ambivalence, Othering, Agency -- Part II Case Studies -- Paul's Version of "Turning the Other Cheek": Rethinking Violence and Tolerance -- Violence in the Letter to the Galatians? -- A Godfighter Becomes a Fighter for God -- Jesus and Violence: An Ideological-Critical Reading of the Tenants in Mark 12:1-12 and Thomas 65 -- The Use of Violence in Punishing Adultery in Biblical Texts (Deuteronomy 22:13-29 and John 7:53-8:11) -- Violence in a Gospel of Love -- Images of War and Creation, of Violence and Non-Violence in the Revelation of John -- Unmasking and Challenging Evil: Exegetical Perspectives on Violence in Revelation 18 -- The Eschatological Battle according to the Book of Revelation: Perspectives on Revelation 19:11-21 -- Part III Epilogue -- Hermeneutical Perspectives on Violence in the New Testament -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
The present publication aims to contribute to the recent scholarly debate about the interconnections between violence and monotheistic religions by analysing the role of violence in the New Testament as well as by offering some hermeneutical perspectives on violence as it is articulated in the earliest Christian writings.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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