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Violence in Antiquity: Religious Approaches to its Legitimation and Delegitimation / Gewalt in der Antike: Religiöse Ansätze zu ihrer Legitimierung und Delegitimierung

By Johannes Breuer , Jochen Walter (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Franz Steiner Verlag
Year
2023
ISBN
3515134506, 9783515134507
Language
englishgerman
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7584894 bytes)
Series
Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 16
Pages
192\193
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-04-09 19:14:42

Description

What is the role of religious aspects in legitimizing or delegitimizing violence? The articles of this volume provide an important contribution to this crucial social and scholarly debate. Analysing a broad spectrum of case studies from antiquity, they focus on religious justifications or evaluations of recommended, performed, or forbidden acts of violence – regardless of the question of their historicity. Not only late antiquity and Christianity are considered, but also pre-Christian Greek and Roman civilizations, Judaism, literary myth, and atheism. The case studies cover the period from the fifth century BCE to the fifth century CE and a broad geographical scope extending from Gaul to Israel and Egypt. This volume offers new insights into a highly topical issue.

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