Flesh becomes word : A lexicography of the scapegoat or, the history of an idea / David Dawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawson, David.

Series:

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scapegoat (The English word).

English language--Etymology.

English language.

English language--Religious aspects.

Scapegoat in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though its coinage can be traced back to a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term "scapegoat" has enjoyed a long and varied history of both scholarly and everyday uses. While WilliamTyndale employed it to describe one of two goats chosen by lot to escape the Day of Atonement sacrifices with its life, the expression was soon far more widely used to name victims of false accusation and unwarranted punishment. As such, the scapegoat figures prominently in contemporary theories of violence, from its elevation by Frazer to a ritual category in his ethnological opus The Golden Bough

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Rites of Riddance and Substitution; Chapter 2. Ancient Types and Soteriologies; Chapter 3. The Sulfurous and Sublime; Chapter 4. Economies of Blood; Chapter 5. The Damnation of Christ's Soul; Chapter 6. Anthropologies of the Scapegoat; Chapter 7. The Goat and the Idol; Chapter 8. A Figure in Flux; Chapter 9. Early Modern Texts of Persecution; Chapter 10. A Latent History of the Modern World; Conclusion. The Plowbeam and the Loom; Appendix. Katharma and Peripsēma Testimonia; Notes; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-60917-349-X

OCLC:

843777425