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Jesusviolence : racism, speciesism, and other violences in and after the gospels /

This text is simultaneously a study in biblical violence and a study in biblical hermeneutics. More precisely, it is a search for a biblical hermeneutic adequate to engage with biblical violence. It is more interested in what gospel texts do than what they mean - not least when what they do, or caus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Stephen D., 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Bible. > New Testament > Hermeneutics.
Violence in the Bible.
Violence dans la Bible.
Religion
Violence in the Bible
Religion & beliefs.
Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction (and Conclusion)
  • Four Jesuses, Three Violences
  • How Shall We Respond to Violence with a Violent Book?
  • The Violence That Makes Books on Biblical Violence Possible
  • Things Written and Not Written in This Book
  • 1 Jesusviolences Visible and Invisible
  • Texts of Horror
  • Two Orders of Violence
  • Structural Violence, Cultural Violence, Counterviolence
  • Roman Imperial Structural Violence
  • God's Slave Girl
  • 2 Anguished Screams and Lovehatelove
  • Why Violence Is Never Represented in the Synoptic Gospels
  • Part I: Why Mark's Question Is a Wound and Its Answer a Scream
  • Unspeakable Violence
  • "My God, my God . . ."
  • Part II: John's Gospel of Love (and Hate)
  • Hate, Seek, Kill
  • Tales of an Aryan Galilean and Devil-Descended Deicides
  • Intimate Enmity
  • 3 Christology and Killability
  • Animals in Academe
  • The Animal Rights Bible on Biblical Animals
  • "Are you not of more value than they?"
  • Exceptional Humans and Decomposing Pigs
  • Messianic Donkeys, Compliant and Defiant
  • The Dog-Woman's Lesson for the Human One
  • 4 The Soteriological Slaughterhouse
  • The Animal in Pain
  • Incarnational Metaphors: Son, Sheep, Snake
  • What Is a Lamb of God?
  • The Humanilamb Puzzle
  • Soteriology and Slaughter
  • Expiation and Indignation
  • 5 Whitejesuses Visible and Invisible
  • Colonial Whiteness I
  • Soteriological Whiteness
  • Colonial Whiteness II
  • Material Whiteness
  • Coda: Methodological Whiteness
  • Works Cited
  • Biblical Index