The Massacre of the Innocents
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The Massacre of the Innocents

Studies in the Cultural Afterlife of a Gospel Scene

  1. 415 pages
  2. English
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The Massacre of the Innocents

Studies in the Cultural Afterlife of a Gospel Scene

About this book

In The Massacre of the Innocents: Studies in the Cultural Afterlife of a Gospel Scene, Warren Carter examines some fifty instances of the interpretation of the Matthean "Massacre of the Innocents" (Matt 2:16-18). He emphasizes the agency of interpreters, who in their particular contexts and media, "think with" the shocking Matthean scene to address the often-tragic circumstances of their audiences. He argues throughout that the structure of the Gospel scene facilitates this "thinking with." The scene is structured as a triad of power relations with a tyrant (Herod), victims (infants and parents), and violent means of tyranny (the massacre). Interpreters use this triad of power relations to identify tyrant/s, victims, and means of tyranny in their own situations. Carter illustrates the use of this triad of power relations across two millennia, in numerous socio-political contexts, and media as diverse as sermons, images, poems and hymns, dramas and festivals, films, novels, Christmas carols, and Children's Bibles.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction
  7. Part I: EARLY INTERPRETATIONS
  8. Chapter 2: Proto-Gospel of James
  9. Chapter 3: Irenaeus
  10. Chapter 4: Cyprian
  11. Part II: FIRST MILLENNIUM SERMONS
  12. Chapter 5: Chrysostom: Sermon 9 (d. 407)
  13. Chapter 6: Chrysologus: Sermon 152 (d. 450)
  14. Chapter 7: Quodvultdeus: Two Homilies on the Creed (430s CE)
  15. Chapter 8: Leo, Bishop of Rome (d. 461)
  16. Chapter 9: Our Martyrs Are Better: A Fifth-Century Anonymous Sermon
  17. Chapter 10: Caesarius of Arles: Sermon 222, “On the Feast of the Holy Innocents” (d. 542)
  18. Chapter 11: Venerable Bede (d. 735)
  19. Chapter 12: Hildegard of Bingen (d. 1179)
  20. Part III: IMAGES
  21. Chapter 13: Women Viewers at Chartres Cathedral (Thirteenth Century)
  22. Chapter 14: Matteo di Giovanni (d. 1495)
  23. Chapter 15: Pieter Bruegel (d. 1569)
  24. Chapter 16: The Chapel of Lucrezia della Rovere (Sixteenth Century)
  25. Chapter 17: The Book of Common Prayer, William Faithorne (1653)
  26. Chapter 18: William Rimmer, Massacre of the Innocents (1858)
  27. Chapter 19: Julia ChavarrĂ­a, Massacre of the Innocents (1981)
  28. Chapter 20: Bessie Harvey, Slaughter of the Innocents (1985)
  29. Chapter 21: Anker Eli Petersen Scream from Ramah (2001)
  30. Chapter 22: Oppression of Indigenous Peoples: Kent Monkman (2015/2017)
  31. Chapter 23: Kara Walker, Slaughter of the Innocents (2016)
  32. Part IV: POEMS/HYMNS
  33. Chapter 24: Ephrem, Hymn Twenty-Four (d. 373)
  34. Chapter 25: Prudentius, Cathemerinon 12 (c. 400)
  35. Chapter 26: Paulinus and the Heavenly Play Center, Poem 31 (c. 400)
  36. Chapter 27: Romanos the Melodist, Kontakion 3 (d. 556)
  37. Chapter 28: Bede, Hymn 1, For the Holy Innocents (d. 735)
  38. Chapter 29: Giambattista Marino, La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) (1632)
  39. Part V: DRAMAS/FESTIVALS
  40. Chapter 30: Fleury Drama (c. 1200)
  41. Chapter 31: York Mystery Plays (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
  42. Chapter 32: Chester Mystery Cycle: Play 10 (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
  43. Chapter 33: Festival de MĂĄscaras de Hatillo, Puerto Rico
  44. Part VI: FILMS
  45. Chapter 34: Nicholas Ray, King of Kings (1961)
  46. Chapter 35: Pasolini, Il vangelo secondo Mattei/The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
  47. Chapter 36: Franco Zeffirelli, Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
  48. Chapter 37: Mark Dornford-May, Son of Man (2006)
  49. Chapter 38: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
  50. Chapter 39: Albert Camus, The Fall (La Chute) (1956)
  51. Chapter 40: José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
  52. Chapter 41: Anne Rice, Christ the Lord (2005)
  53. Chapter 42: Jacobus Clemens non Papa (d. 1555): Motet, Vox in Rama
  54. Chapter 43: Hector Berlioz (d. 1869) Oratorio: L’Enfance du Christ/The Childhood of Christ (1854)
  55. Chapter 44: Arthur Sullivan (d. 1900) Oratorio: The Light of the World (1873)
  56. Chapter 45: John Harbison (b. 1938) Cantata: The Flight into Egypt (1987)
  57. Chapter 46: Coventry Carol: A Lament-Lullaby (“Lully, lulla, thou little tiny Child”) (1534/1591)
  58. Chapter 47: George Wither (d. 1667): “That Rage Whereof the Psalm Doth Say”
  59. Chapter 48: Luke Wadding, For Innocents’ Day (1684)
  60. Chapter 49: Cecil Francis (Fanny) Alexander, O Lord, the Holy Innocents (1848)
  61. Chapter 50: Children’s Bibles
  62. Bibliography
  63. Index
  64. About the Author