The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred: Liberation from the Myth of Sanctioned Violence »

About the Author:
James G. Williams, is the author of Gospel Against Parable: Mark's Language of Mystery and Women Recounted: Narrative Thinking and the God of Israel

Foreword   Rene Girard     v
Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xv
Note on Translations and Transcriptions     xvi
Rene Girard: A New Approach to Biblical Texts     1
Enemy Brothers     33
Excursus: Folkloristic Approaches to the Bible     68
Moses and the Exodus     71
Excursus: The Great Man Myth: Freud, Heidegger, Mann, and Fascism     98
Covenant and Sacrifice     105
Kings and Prophets: Sacred Lot and Divine Calling     129
Job Versus the "Friends": The Failed Scapegoat     163
The Gospels and the Innocent Victim     185
Desire, Violence, and the Truth of the Victim     213
Conclusion: "A Citty upon a Hill"     241
Notes     259
Index     281