Biblical curses and the displacement of tradition / Brian Britt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Britt, Brian M., 1964-

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Bible in the modern world ; 34.

The Bible in the modern world, 1747-9630 ; 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blessing and cursing in the Bible.

Hate speech--History.

Hate speech.

Blessing and cursing--History.

Blessing and cursing.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 309 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield [England] : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011.

Contents:

Introduction : the displacement of biblical curses

Part I. Biblical curses

Covenant curses as models of displacement

Identity and ethnicity in biblical curses

Cursing the day, cursing the self : Job 3 and Jeremiah 20

Part II. Early Modern cursing

Power and profanity : cursing in seventeenth-century England

Broadside ballads, Lyrical Ballads, and the Wandering Jew

Nietzsche and Freud, cursing moderns

Part III. The contemporary legacy of biblical curses

Biblical curses in American fiction : Hurston and O'Connor

Erasing Amalek : Derrida, negative theology, and biblical erasure

Curses left and right : speech-act theory, hate speech, and religious freedom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [284]-300) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1907534113

9781907534119

OCLC:

720168091

Publisher Number:

99949042472