Terror in the Bible: Rhetoric, Gender, and Violence

by Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon

Book Overview

This volume of essays, inspired by Phyllis Trible's Texts of Terror, examines the terrorizing potential of biblical texts as they intersect with issues of context, gender, caste, violence, and colonization/imperialism. Contributors writing from Australia, India, New Zealand, Tonga, South Africa, and the US interrogate biblical texts from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to bring to the fore their terrorizing and terrifying potential and their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628374217
• ISBN13: 9781628374216
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"