Sanctified aggression :  legacies of biblical and post biblical vocabularies of violence / 
edited by Jonneke Bekkenkamp and Yvonne Sherwood. 
 - London ;  New York :  T & T Clark International,  c2003. 
 - xii, 248 p. :  ill., map ;  24 cm. 
 - Journal for the study of the Old Testament.  Supplement series ;  400 .
 - Bible in the twenty-first century series ;  3 .
 - BTC (Series) ;  3. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-240) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: The thin blade of difference between real swords and words about 'sharp-edged iron things': reflections on how people use the Word / Yvonne Sherwood, Jonneke Bekkenkamp -- The daughter of Jephthah: changing views on God, man, and violence in plays and oratorios since George Buchanan / Klaas Spronk -- Textual carcasses and Isaac's scar, or what Jewish interpretation makes of the violence that almost takes place on Mt Moriah / Yvonne Sherwood -- Fleshing out the text / Hugh S. Pyper -- Genocide in the name of 'salvation': the combined contribution of biblical translation/interpretation and indigenous myth to the 1994 Rwandan genocide / Malachie Munyaneza -- 'On the rivers of Babylon' (Psalm 137), or between victim and perpetrator / Athalya Brenner -- (De)nominating Amalek: racist stereotyping in the Bible and the justification of discrimination / Alastair G. Hunter -- Purity and danger at the end of the world: priestly and prophetic paradigms in contemporary apocalyptic visions / Tod Linafelt -- The white supremacist Bible and the Phineas priesthood / Timothy K. Beal -- Jesus the actor: Edwin Morgan's A.D.: a trilogy of plays on the life of Jesus (2000) / David Jasper -- Messianic victims or victimized Messiah?: biblical allusion and violence in The matrix / Jeremy Punt -- The making of modern martyrs: the martyrs of Columbine / Elizabeth Leigh Gibson -- The tyranny of the martyr: violence and victimization in martyrdom discourse and the movies of Lars von Trier -- Internet martyrs and violence: victims and/or perpetrators? / Jan Willem van Henten -- Violence and final vocabularies: on mapping actual hopes and beliefs / Jonneke Bekkenkamp. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0567080609 (paperback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004463499 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible--Use.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Violence in the Bible.<br/>Violence--Religious aspects.<br/>Aggressiveness in the Bible.<br/>Aggressiveness--Religious aspects.<br/>Martyrdom.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS680.V55  / S36 2003