Violence in the New Testament

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

New Testament passages suggesting that early Christ-believers were violently persecuted (the 'stone throwing' passages from John, the 'persecuted from town to town' passages in Matthew, the stoning of Stephen in Acts, Paul's hardship catalogue in II Corinthians, etc.) are frequently read positivistically as windows onto 1st century persecution; at the other extreme, they are sometimes dismissed as completely a-historical. In either case, scholars up until now have provided little in the way of methodological reflection on how they have reached such conclusions. A further problematic issue in previous readings of passages suggesting such violence is that the perpetrators of violence are frequently cast as 'Jews' while the violated are cast as 'Christians,' in spite of the growing consensus that it is impossible to tease out these two distinct and separate religious identities, Jew and Christian, from first century texts. This volume takes up crucial methodological questions about how to read passages suggesting violence among Jews in texts that eventually became part of the New Testament canon.It situates this intra-religious violence within the violence of the Roman imperial order. It provides new readings of these texts that move beyond the 'Jew as violator'/'Christian as violated' binary.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-05-01
Mått:142 x 219 x 11 mm
Vikt:256 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780567025005

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Shelly Matthews is Assistant Professor of Religion at Furman University. E. Leigh Gibson is an independent scholar based in Princeton, New Jersey, who has taught at Oberlin College and Rutgers University

Recensioner i media

"[T]his collection of essays in an invaluable addition to New Testament studies that should stimulate much discussion. It raises key issues relating to the violent language of the new Testament and, one hopes, will fuel much research in this vital area and facilitate a mutual consideration of the New Testament from the perspectives of Jewish and Christian scholars alike."- Mark Bredin, The Society of Biblical Literature, January 2006

Innehållsförteckning

List of Contributors and Topics: 1. Richard A. Horsley (University of Massachusetts, Boston), "Imperial Violence and the Historical Jesus" 2. John G. Gager (Princeton University), "Violence and Paul" 3. Melanie Johnson DeBaufre (Luther College), "Violence and the Q Community" 4. Warren Carter (Saint Paul School of Theology), "Representing Violence and Matthew's Gospel: Violent Jews? Non-Violent Christians?" 5. Adele Reinhartz (Wilfrid Laurier University), "The Rhetoric of Violence in the Gospel of John" 6. John W. Marshall (University of Toronto), "Collateral Damage: Insider Violence in John's Apocalypse" 7.Shelly Matthews (Furman University), "The Need for the Stoning of Stephen" 8.David Frankfurter (University of New Hampshire), "Afterward"