TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renard,John
TI  - Fighting words: religion, violence, and the interpretation of sacred texts 
SN  - 9780520258310 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - BL65.V55 F64 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Violence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Sacred books
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Religions
KW  - Relations
N1  - 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 --; Finhas 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
ER  -