Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts

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Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts is written by Tracy Maria Lemos and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198784538 (ISBN 10) and 9780198784531 (ISBN 13).

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, with these relations often determining 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 also argues that in particular social contexts in the contemporary "western" world, this same nexus operates, holding devastating consequences for marginalized social groups.