"First delivered as papers in June 2002 at Purdue University in connection with the annual meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion"--Acknowledgements.
Substitutive reading : an introduction to Girardian thinking, its reception in biblical studies, and this volume / Sandor Goodhart and Ann W. Astell
Part I. Sacrifice
ch. 1. Mimesis, sacrifice, and the Bible : a conversation with Sandor Goodhart / René Girard
ch. 2. Bloody logic : the biblical economy of sacrificial substitution and some of its eucharistic implications / Thomas Ryba
ch. 3. Aspects of the transformation of sacrifice in Judaism / Michael Fishbane
ch. 4. The Eucharist and the mimesis of sacrifice / Bruce Chilton
ch. 5. Eucharistic origins : from the New Testament to the liturgies of the golden age / Robert Daly
ch. 6. Life after death : violence, martyrdom, and academic life in Western religions / Alan F. Segal
ch. 7. Anti-Judaism, Josephus, and the Hellenistic-Roman period / Louis H. Feldman
ch. 8. Beyond anti-Judaism : Louis Feldman and the 'lachrymose version' of Jewish history / Erich S. Gruen
ch. 9. Mimesis, scapegoating, and philo-Semitism : reading Feldman and Girard / Stuart D. Robertson
Part II. Scripture
Section 1. hebrew scripture : Genesis 22
ch. 10. Creation and akedah : blessing and sacrifice in the Hebrew scriptures / Matthew Pattillo
ch. 11. The unbinding of Isaac / Steven Stern
ch. 12. Binding and blessing : a response to Pattillo and Stern / Sandor Goodhart
Section 2. Holy writings : the book of Job
ch. 13. Mimesis, sacrifice, and the wisdom of Job / Chris Allen Carter
ch. 14. The expulsion of complaint from early Jewish worship / William Morrow
ch. 15. The Book of Job and the problem of evil : reading from theodicy to the ethical / Sandor Goodhart
Section 3. Christian Gospel : Matthew, Luke, and John
ch. 16. Luke and the opportune time : reading the temptation story as preface to kingdom and prologue to passion / William Martin Aiken
ch. 17. A gospel that preaches nonviolence and yet provokes violence / Gérard Rossé
ch. 18. 'Exilic' identities, the Samaritans, and the 'Satan' of John / Ann W. Astell
Section 4. Christian Epistles : colossians and Hebrews
ch. 19. Aristotle's 'natural slaves' and Colossae's unnatural 'Scythians' : a generative exegesis of Colossians 3:11 / Christopher S. Morrissey
ch. 20. Is an anti-sacrificial reading of Hebrews plausible? / Poong-In Lee
ch. 21. Hermeneutics, exegesis, and René Girard : a response to Christopher Morrissey and Poong-in Lee / Anthony W. Bartlett.
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