Sanctified Aggression
Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence
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Sanctified Aggression
Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence
About this book
Sanctified Aggression allies itself neither with the easy assumption that religions are by definition violent (and that only the secular/humanist/humane can offer a place of refuge from the ravages of religious authority) nor with the equally facile opposing view that religion expresses the "best" of human aspirations and that this best is always capable of diffusing or sublating the worst. Rather, it works from the premise that biblical, Jewish and Christian vocabularies continue to resonate, inspire and misfire. Some of the essays here explore how these vocabularies and symbols have influenced, or resonate with, events such as the massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland (1941), the Rwandan Massacre (1994), the tragedy at Columbine High School (1999) and the emergence of the "Phineas Priesthood" of white supremacists in North America. Other contributors examine how themes of martyrology, sacrifice and the messianic continue to circulate and mutate in literature, music, drama and film. The collective conclusion is that it is not possible to control biblical and religious violence by simply identifying canonical trouble-spots, then fencing them off with barbed wire or holding peace summits around them. Nor is it always possible to draw clear lines between problem and non-problem texts, witnesses and perpetrators, victims and aggressors or "reality" and "art".
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The Thin Blade of Difference between Real Swords and Words about 'Sharp-Edged Iron Things'—Reflections on How People Use the Word
- The Daughter of Jephthah: Changing Views on God, Man, and Violence in Plays and Oratorios since George Buchanan
- Textual Carcasses and Isaac's Scar, or What Jewish Interpretation Makes of the Violence that Almost Takes Place on Mt Moriah
- Fleshing Out the Text
- Genocide in the Name of 'Salvation': The Combined Contribution of Biblical Translation/Interpretation and Indigenous Myth to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
- 'On the Rivers of Babylon' (Psalm 137), or between Victim and Perpetrator
- (De)nominating Amalek: Racist Stereotyping in the Bible and the Justification of Discrimination
- Purity and Danger at the End of the World: Priestly and Prophetic Paradigms in Contemporary Apocalyptic Visions
- The White Supremacist Bible and the Phineas Priesthood
- Jesus the Actor: Edwin Morgan's: A.D. A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus (2000)
- Messianic Victims or Victimized Messiah? Biblical Allusion and Violence in The Matrix
- The Making of Modern Martyrs: The Martyrs of Columbine
- 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?
- Violence and Final Vocabularies: On Mapping Actual Hopes and Beliefs
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors