Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Exegesis and violence : texts, contexts, and hermeneutical concerns / John Renard — A brief history of war in the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish interpretive tradition / Reuven Firestone — Annihilate Amalek : Christian perspectives on 1 Samuel 15 / Bernhard A. Asen — Violence in the New Testament and the history of interpretation / Leo D. Lefebure — Finhās of Medina : Islam, the Jews, and the construction of religious militancy / Michael A. Sells — The Baha’i tradition : the return of Joseph and the peaceable imagination / Todd Lawson — Justifiable force and holy war in Zoroastrianism / Jamsheed K. Choksy — The failure of allegory : notes on textual violence and the Bhagavad Gita / Laurie L. Patton — Words as weapons : theory and practice of a righteous war (dharam yudh) in Sikh texts / Pashaura Singh.

Subjects:

• Violence — Religious aspects.
• Sacred books — History and criticism.
• Religions — Relations.

Requested by Kurpiers, R