Coping with Violence in the New Testament

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22104-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 660 g

Reihe: Studies in Theology and Religion

Violence is present in the very heart of religion and its sacred traditions – also of Christianity and the Bible. The problem, however, is not only that violence is ingrained in the mere existence of religions with their sacred traditions. It is equally problematic to realise that the icy grip of violence on the sacred has gone unnoticed and unchallenged for a very long time. The present publication aims to contribute to the recent scholarly debate about the interconnections between violence and monotheistic religions by analysing the role of violence in the New Testament as well as by offering some hermeneutical perspectives on violence as it is articulated in the earliest Christian writings.

Contributors include: Andries G. van Aarde, Paul Decock, Pieter G.R. de Villiers, Ernest van Eck, Jan Willem van Henten, Rob van Houwelingen, Kobus Kok, Tobias Nicklas, Jeremy Punt, Jan G. van der Watt, and Wim Weren.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Christianity/the Bible and violence, New Testament Studies, Early Christianity, Hermeneutics in the Bible, Biblical Theology, as well as ministers and priests and interested laypeople.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Villiers, Pieter

Henten, Jan Willem van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Jan Willem van Henten (University of Amsterdam, University of Stellenbosch), Pieter G.R. de Villiers (University of the Free State)

Part I
INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS

Chapter One: Religion, Bible and Violence
Jan Willem van Henten (University of Amsterdam, University of Stellenbosch)

Chapter Two: Violence in the New Testament and the Roman Empire: Ambivalence, Othering, Agency
Jeremy Punt (University of Stellenbosch)

Part II
CASE STUDIES

Chapter Three: Paul’s Version of “Turning the Other Cheek”. Rethinking Violence and Tolerance
Andries van Aarde (University of Pretoria)

Chapter Four: Violence in the Letter to the Galatians?
Francois Tolmie (University of the Free State)

Chapter Five: A Godfighter Becomes a Fighter for God
Rob van Houwelingen (Theological University Kampen)

Chapter Six: Jesus and Violence: An Ideological-Critical Reading of the Tenants in Mark 12:1-12
Ernest van Eck (University of Pretoria)

Chapter Seven: The Use of Violence in Punishing Adultery in Biblical Texts (Deuteronomy 22:13-29 and John 7:53-8:11)
Wim Weren (Tilburg University)

Chapter Eight: Violence in a Gospel of Love
Jan van der Watt (Radboud University of Nijmegen, University of Pretoria) and Jacobus Kok (University of Pretoria)

Chapter Nine: Images of War and Creation, of Violence and Non-Violence in the Revelation of John
Paul B. Decock (University of KwaZulu-Natal, St. Joseph’s Theological Institute)

Chapter Ten: Exegetical Perspectives on Violence in Revelation 18
Pieter G.R. de Villiers (University of the Free State)

Chapter Eleven: The Eschatological Battle according to the Book of Revelation: Perpectives on Revelation 19:11-21
Tobias Nicklas (University of Regensburg)

Part III
EPILOGUE

Chapter Twelve: Hermeneutical Perspectives on Violence in the New Testament
Pieter G.R. de Villiers (University of the Free State)

Bibliography
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henten, Jan Willem van
Jan Willem van Henten, Ph.D. (1986) in Theology, University of Leiden, is Professor of New Testament at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on ancient martyrdom, apocalypticism and Josephus including Martyrdom and Noble Death (2002, with F. Avemarie).

de Villiers, Pieter
Pieter G.R. de Villiers, D.Th. (1976), University of Stellenbosch, is Professor Extraordinarius of New Testament at the University of the Free State. He has published extensively on apocalyptic literature, mysticism and violence/peace in the New Testament.

Pieter G.R. de Villiers, D.Th. (1976), University of Stellenbosch, is Professor Extraordinarius of New Testament at the University of the Free State. He has published extensively on apocalyptic literature, mysticism and violence/peace in the New Testament.

Jan Willem van Henten, Ph.D. (1986) in Theology, University of Leiden, is Professor of New Testament at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on ancient martyrdom, apocalypticism and Josephus including Martyrdom and Noble Death (2002, with F. Avemarie).