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Violence that is motivated by--and justified by--religious ideas,
authorities and texts is everywhere around us. Some say that the
origins of religion and human violence are inherently connected,
and that the explanation for religious violence lies at the heart
of the religious imagination itself, others that human violence was
there long before religion ever came about, being no more than an
unfortunate by-product of human evolution. Reconsidering the
question of religion and violence in the biblical heritage is a
narrower--but nonetheless essential--endeavour, to which the
present volume addresses itself. After an introductory chapter by
the editors on religion, violence and the Bible, Ziony Zevit writes
on violence in Israelite culture and in the Bible, Tamar
Kamionkowski on violence in prophetic literature, Stephen Geller on
the prophetic roots of religious violence, David Wright on
homicide, talion and vengeance in the Covenant Code, Lawrence Wills
on the death of the hero and the violent death of Jesus, Jennifer
Wright Knust on sacrifice and sacred text in Justin, and David
Frankfurter on vengeance fantasies in the New Testament. Stephen
Marini offers concluding reflections on religion and violence under
the rubric of conflict, subversion and sacrifice.
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