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What does Jesus say and do within the narrative worlds of the New Testament gospels that, through the ages, enabled innumerable gory horrors and immense systemic violence to be perpetrated with his presumed permission? That is the question driving this book. Its compound title, Jesusviolence, simultaneously denotes: first, the violence inflicted on the gospel Jesuses in their narrative worlds; second, the violence enacted by the gospel Jesuses in their narrative worlds; and third, certain of the violence enacted in Jesus's name in our histories and worlds. The book's investigation of Jesusviolence extends over a spectrum ranging from the spectacularly visible--most notably, the ultraviolent spectacle that was Roman crucifixion--to the systemically invisible, which is to say structural, sanctioned, or sanctified violence, encapsulated in such gospel sayings as ""The poor you always have with you"" and ""Are you [humans] not of more value than [nonhuman animals]?"" Entangled with class- and species-related stratagems of systemic violence in and after the gospels are sex/gender-related stratagems, and race/ethnicity-related stratagems, the latter epitomized by the whitening of the gospel Jesus(es). Inspired by affect theory, non-representational theory, and other related currents of thought, this book is more interested in what gospel texts do than what they mean.

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Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies at the Theological School, Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He is the author or editor, coauthor, or coeditor of around thirty books, including, Gospel Jesuses and Other Nonhumans: Biblical Criticism Post-poststructuralism, Revelation: Book of Torment, Book of Bliss, Decolonial Theory and Biblical Unreading: Delinking Biblical Criticism from Coloniality, and with Oxford University Press, The Bible after Deleuze: Affects, Assemblages, Bodies without Organs. David Marantz is an actor living in New York City. He has narrated eighty-five-plus titles since his first in 2011. He won an AudioFile Earphones Award for The Mind Club by Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray, and was nominated for an Audie Award for his contribution to the short story collection Rip-Off! As an actor he has worked on stage, film, and television. Summers often find him performing Shakespeare for Shakespeare in the Parking Lot on New York's Lower East Side and also in Bryant Park behind the New York Public Library. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA.

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