The Massacre of the Innocents
Studies in the Cultural Afterlife of a Gospel Scene
1st Edition
Published on 30. January 2023
414 pages
978-1-9787-1411-3 (ISBN)
Description
In The Massacre of the Innocents: Studies in the Cultural Afterlife of a Gospel Scene, Warren Carter examines some fifty instances of the interpretation of the Matthean "Massacre of the Innocents" (Matt 2:16-18). He emphasizes the agency of interpreters, who in their particular contexts and media, "think with" the shocking Matthean scene to address the often-tragic circumstances of their audiences. He argues throughout that the structure of the Gospel scene facilitates this "thinking with." The scene is structured as a triad of power relations with a tyrant (Herod), victims (infants and parents), and violent means of tyranny (the massacre). Interpreters use this triad of power relations to identify tyrant/s, victims, and means of tyranny in their own situations. Carter illustrates the use of this triad of power relations across two millennia, in numerous socio-political contexts, and media as diverse as sermons, images, poems and hymns, dramas and festivals, films, novels, Christmas carols, and Children's Bibles.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-1411-3 (9781978714113)
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02/2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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Person
Warren Carter is the LaDonna Kramer Meinders Professor of New Testament at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction
Section 1 Earliest Interpretations
Chapter 2 Proto-Gospel of James
Chapter 3 Irenaeus
Chapter 4 Cyprian
Section 2 First Millennium Sermons
Chapter 5 Chrysostom: Sermon 9 (d.407)
Chapter 6 Chrysologus: Sermon 152 (d. 450)
Chapter 7 Quodvultdeus: Two Homilies on the Creed (430s CE)
Chapter 8 Leo, Bishop of Rome (d.461)
Chapter 9 Our Martyrs Are Better: A Fifth Century Anonymous Sermon
Chapter 10 Caesarius: Sermon 222, "On the Feast of the Holy Innocents" (d.542)
Chapter 11 Venerable Bede (d.735)
Chapter 12 Hildegard of Bingen (d.1179)
Section 3 Images
Chapter 13 Women at Chartres Cathedral (13th Century)
Chapter 14 Matteo di Giovanni (d.1495)
Chapter 15 Pieter Bruegel (d.1569)
Chapter 16 The Chapel of Lucrezia della Rovere (16th Century)
Chapter 17 The Book of Common Prayer, William Faithorne (1653)
Chapter 18 William Rimmer, Massacre of the Innocents (1858)
Chapter 19 Julia Chavarría, Massacre of the Innocents (1981)
Chapter 20 Bessie Harve
Section 1 Earliest Interpretations
Chapter 2 Proto-Gospel of James
Chapter 3 Irenaeus
Chapter 4 Cyprian
Section 2 First Millennium Sermons
Chapter 5 Chrysostom: Sermon 9 (d.407)
Chapter 6 Chrysologus: Sermon 152 (d. 450)
Chapter 7 Quodvultdeus: Two Homilies on the Creed (430s CE)
Chapter 8 Leo, Bishop of Rome (d.461)
Chapter 9 Our Martyrs Are Better: A Fifth Century Anonymous Sermon
Chapter 10 Caesarius: Sermon 222, "On the Feast of the Holy Innocents" (d.542)
Chapter 11 Venerable Bede (d.735)
Chapter 12 Hildegard of Bingen (d.1179)
Section 3 Images
Chapter 13 Women at Chartres Cathedral (13th Century)
Chapter 14 Matteo di Giovanni (d.1495)
Chapter 15 Pieter Bruegel (d.1569)
Chapter 16 The Chapel of Lucrezia della Rovere (16th Century)
Chapter 17 The Book of Common Prayer, William Faithorne (1653)
Chapter 18 William Rimmer, Massacre of the Innocents (1858)
Chapter 19 Julia Chavarría, Massacre of the Innocents (1981)
Chapter 20 Bessie Harve
