Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practices in Early Judaism and Christianity

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Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practices in Early Judaism and Christianity is written by Raanan Shaul Boustan and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004180281 (ISBN 10) and 9789004180284 (ISBN 13).

This volume analyzes the emergence of Jewish and Christian discourses of religious violence within their Roman imperial context with an emphasis on the shared textual practices through which authoritative scriptural traditions were redeployed to represent, legitimate, and indeed sacralize violence.