Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av T. M. Lemos, University of Western Ontario) Lemos, T. M. (Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, Huron University College, LEMOS, Lemos

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Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts is the first book-length work on personhood in ancient Israel. T. M. Lemos reveals widespread intersections between violence and personhood in both this society and the wider region. Relations of domination and subordination were incredibly important to the culture and social organization of ancient Israel often resulting in these relations becoming determined by the boundaries of personhood itself. Personhood was malleable--it could be and was violently erased in many social contexts. This study exposes a violence-personhood-masculinity nexus in which domination allowed those in control to animalize and brutalize the bodies of subordinates. Lemos argues that in particular social contexts in the contemporary "western" world, this same nexus operates, holding devastating consequences for particular social groups.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-10-05
Mått154 x 225 x 18 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198784531

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Abbreviations1: Dogs beneath the Tables of Men: Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts2: Crushing the Insubmissive: Violence and the Personhood of Foreigners in Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East3: 'But He Indeed Will Rule Over You': Violence and the Personhood of Women in Ancient Israel4: For He Is Your Property: Violence and the Personhood of Slaves in Ancient Israel5: Visiting the Iniquity of the Father on the Son: Violence and the Personhood of Children in Ancient Israel6: Of Dogs and Men: Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and in Contemporary ContextsBibliography

[a] very timely and revealing study ... This monograph is carefully researched and meticulously documented. I was consistently impressed by the degree of nuance Lemos exercises throughout the study ... this book is a welcome addition to the growing collection of studies on various aspects of violence in the Hebrew Bible. It deserves a careful reading and will certainly become an important part of future conversations that reflect on the nature of personhood in Israelite thought and the determinative role violence played in that regard.