Introduction: The thin blade of difference between real swords and words about 'sharp-edged iron things': reflections on how people use the Word / Yvonne Sherwood, Jonneke Bekkenkamp
The daughter of Jephthah: changing views on God, man, and violence in plays and oratorios since George Buchanan / Klaas Spronk
Textual carcasses and Isaac's scar, or what Jewish interpretation makes of the violence that almost takes place on Mt Moriah / Yvonne Sherwood
Fleshing out the text / Hugh S. Pyper
Genocide in the name of 'salvation': the combined contribution of biblical translation/interpretation and indigenous myth to the 1994 Rwandan genocide / Malachie Munyaneza
'On the rivers of Babylon' (Psalm 137), or between victim and perpetrator / Athalya Brenner
(De)nominating Amalek: racist stereotyping in the Bible and the justification of discrimination / Alastair G. Hunter
Purity and danger at the end of the world: priestly and prophetic paradigms in contemporary apocalyptic visions / Tod Linafelt
The white supremacist Bible and the Phineas priesthood / Timothy K. Beal
Jesus the actor: Edwin Morgan's A.D.: a trilogy of plays on the life of Jesus (2000) / David Jasper
Messianic victims or victimized Messiah?: biblical allusion and violence in The matrix / Jeremy Punt
The making of modern martyrs: the martyrs of Columbine / Elizabeth Leigh Gibson
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? / Jan Willem van Henten
Violence and final vocabularies: on mapping actual hopes and beliefs / Jonneke Bekkenkamp.
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Sanctified aggression : legacies of biblical and post biblical vocabularies of violence. ISBN 0567080609. Published by T & T Clark International in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
