Jesusviolence : racism, speciesism, and other violences in and after the gospels / Stephen D. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Stephen D., 1954- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Hermeneutics.

Bible.

Violence in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

This text is simultaneously a study in biblical violence and a study in biblical hermeneutics. More precisely, it is a search for a biblical hermeneutic adequate to engage with biblical violence. It is more interested in what gospel texts do than what they mean - not least when what they do, or cause to be done, is violent.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction (and Conclusion)

Four Jesuses, Three Violences

How Shall We Respond to Violence with a Violent Book?

The Violence That Makes Books on Biblical Violence Possible

Things Written and Not Written in This Book

1 Jesusviolences Visible and Invisible

Texts of Horror

Two Orders of Violence

Structural Violence, Cultural Violence, Counterviolence

Roman Imperial Structural Violence

God's Slave Girl

2 Anguished Screams and Lovehatelove

Why Violence Is Never Represented in the Synoptic Gospels

Part I: Why Mark's Question Is a Wound and Its Answer a Scream

Unspeakable Violence

"My God, my God . . ."

Part II: John's Gospel of Love (and Hate)

Hate, Seek, Kill

Tales of an Aryan Galilean and Devil-Descended Deicides

Intimate Enmity

3 Christology and Killability

Animals in Academe

The Animal Rights Bible on Biblical Animals

"Are you not of more value than they?"

Exceptional Humans and Decomposing Pigs

Messianic Donkeys, Compliant and Defiant

The Dog-Woman's Lesson for the Human One

4 The Soteriological Slaughterhouse

The Animal in Pain

Incarnational Metaphors: Son, Sheep, Snake

What Is a Lamb of God?

The Humanilamb Puzzle

Soteriology and Slaughter

Expiation and Indignation

5 Whitejesuses Visible and Invisible

Colonial Whiteness I

Soteriological Whiteness

Colonial Whiteness II

Material Whiteness

Coda: Methodological Whiteness

Works Cited

Biblical Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-781610-X

0-19-781611-8

0-19-781612-6

9780197816103

OCLC:

1547177089