Sanctified Aggression: Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence
In: The Library of Hebrew Bible v.v. 400
In: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series 400
In: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
In: Bible in the twenty-first century series 3
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 influence