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The Massacre of the Innocents: Studies in the Cultural Afterlife of a Gospel Scene

The Massacre of the Innocents: Studies in the Cultural Afterlife of a Gospel Scene

Carter, Warren

Hardcover

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1978714106
ISBN13: 9781978714106
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Published: Feb 8 2023
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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