While much work has been done on the role of Jews in the crucifixion of Jesus in post-Holocaust biblical scholarship, the question of violence in subsequent community formation remains largely unexamined. New Testament passages suggesting that early Christ-believers were violently persecuted--the "stone throwing" passages from John, the "persecuted from town to town" passages in Matthew, the stoning of Stephen in Acts, Paul's hardship catalogue in II Corinthians, etc.-- are frequently read positivistically as windows onto first century persecution; at the other extreme, they are sometimes dismissed as completely a-historical. In either case, scholars up until now have provided little in the way of methodological reflection on how they have reached such conclusions. A further problematic issue in previous readings of passages suggesting such violence is that the perpetrators of violence are frequently cast as "Jews" while the violated are cast as "Christians," in spite of the growing consensus that it is impossible to tease out these two distinct and separate religious identities, Jew and Christian, from first century texts. This volume takes up crucial methodological questions about how to read passages suggesting violence among Jews in texts that eventually became part of the New Testament canon. It situates this intra-religious violence within the violence of the Roman Imperial order. It provides new readings of these texts that move beyond the "Jew as violator"/"Christian as violated" binary.

Violence In The New Testament

Religion & Spirituality

Shelly Matthews

E. Leigh Gibson

Christian Books & Bibles

T&T Clark

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Heritage Fine Art Auction #628: Featuring Works from an Important Collection of a Texas Family

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Scott Barber

Heritage Auctions, Inc.

&#65279;The biblical studies classroom can be a site of personal and social transformation for students and teachers alike. To make it a place for positive change, the contributors to Race and Biblical Studies question and reevaluate traditional teaching practices and assessment tools in order to offer practical guidance for an antiracist pedagogy. The introduction and fifteen essays not only critique previous practices that have reinforced whiteness as the norm in many ways, both wittingly or unwittingly, but also provide tools for engaging issues of social context and scriptural authority, nationalism and religious identities, critical race theory, and how race, gender, and class can be addressed empathetically.

Race and Biblical Studies: Antiracism Pedagogy for the Classroom (Resources for Biblical Study) (Resources for Biblical Study, 101)

Literature & Fiction

Tat-Siong Benny Liew

History & Criticism

SBL Press

Race and Biblical Studies: Antiracism Pedagogy for the Classroom (Resources for Biblical Study)

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