Biblical curses and the displacement of tradition
By: Brian Britt
Series: The Bible in the modern world -- 34; Bible in the modern world -- 34.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sheffield [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781907534119
Subjects: Hate speech; Blessing and cursing; Schmährede; Fluch; Literatur; Bibel; Blessing and cursing in the Bible; Rezeption; Segen; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-300) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the displacement of biblical curses; title: Part I. Biblical curses; title: Covenant curses as models of displacement; title: Identity and ethnicity in biblical curses; title: Cursing the day, cursing the self : Job 3 and Jeremiah 20; title: Part II. Early Modern cursing; title: Power and profanity : cursing in seventeenth-century England; title: Broadside ballads, Lyrical Ballads, and the Wandering Jew; title: Nietzsche and Freud, cursing moderns; title: Part III. The contemporary legacy of biblical curses; title: Biblical curses in American fiction : Hurston and O'Connor; title: Erasing Amalek : Derrida, negative theology, and biblical erasure; title: Curses left and right : speech-act theory, hate speech, and religious freedom.