Citation

Carter W. Interpretation 2017; 71(3): 284-297.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0020964317698764

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

After describing key interpretive categories of sanctioned and structural violence, the article identifies some forms of sanctioned structural violence evident in Matthew's Gospel. It concludes with a brief consideration of contemporary strategies for identifying and resisting scriptural inscribing and sanctioning of violence.

Language: en

Keywords

Capital Punishment; Eschatological Violence; Herod the Great; Matthew, Gospel of; Parables of Violence; Roman Empire; Sanctioned Violence; Slavery; Structural Violence