{"product_id":"the-massacre-of-the-innocents-studies-in-the-cultural-afterlife-of-a-gospel-scene-9781978714106","title":"The Massacre of the Innocents: Studies in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 1 Earliest Interpretations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Proto-Gospel of James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Irenaeus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Cyprian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 2 First Millennium Sermons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Chrysostom: Sermon 9 (d.407)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Chrysologus: Sermon 152 (d. 450)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Quodvultdeus: Two Homilies on the Creed (430s CE)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Leo, Bishop of Rome (d.461)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Our Martyrs Are Better: A Fifth Century Anonymous Sermon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Caesarius: Sermon 222, “On the Feast of the Holy Innocents” (d.542)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Venerable Bede (d.735)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Hildegard of Bingen (d.1179)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 3 Images\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Women at Chartres Cathedral (13th Century)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Matteo di Giovanni (d.1495)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Pieter Bruegel (d.1569)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16 The Chapel of Lucrezia della Rovere (16th Century)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17 The Book of Common Prayer, William Faithorne (1653)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18 William Rimmer, Massacre of the Innocents (1858)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19 Julia Chavarría, Massacre of the Innocents (1981)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20 Bessie Harvey, Slaughter of the Innocents (1985)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21 Anker Eli Petersen “Scream From Ramah” (2001)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22 Oppression of Indigenous Peoples: Kent Monkman (2015\/2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 23 Kara Walker, Slaughter of the Innocents (2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 4 Poems\/Hymns \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 24 Ephrem, “Hymn Twenty-Four” (d.373) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 25 Prudentius, Cathemerinon 12 (c. 400) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 26 Paulinus and the Heavenly Play Center, “Poem 31” (c. 400) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 27 Romanos the Melodist, Kontakion 3 (d.556) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 28 Bede, “Hymn 1, For the Holy Innocents” (d.735)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 29 Giambattista Marino, La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) (1632)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 5 Dramas\/Festivals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 30 Fleury Drama (c1200)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 31 York Mystery Plays (15th-16th Centuries)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 32 Chester Mystery Cycle: Play 10 (15th-16th Centuries)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 33 Festival de Máscaras de Hatillo, Puerto Rico\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 6 Films\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 34 Nicholas Ray, King of Kings (1961)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 35 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il vangelo secondo Mattei\/The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 36 Franco Zeffirelli, Jesus of Nazareth (1977)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 37 Mark Dornford-May, Son of Man (2006)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 7 Novels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 38 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 39 Albert Camus, The Fall (La Chute) (1956)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 40 José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 41 Anne Rice, Christ the Lord (2005)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 8 Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 42 Jacobus Clemens non Papa (d.1555): Motet, Vox in Rama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 43 Hector Berlioz’s (d.1869) Oratorio: L’Enfance du Christ\/The Childhood of Christ (1854)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 44 Arthur Sullivan (d.1900) Oratorio: The Light of the World (1873) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 45 John Harbison (b.1938) Cantata: The Flight into Egypt (1987) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 9 Christmas Carols\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 46 Coventry Carol: A Lament-Lullaby (“Lully, lulla, thou little tiny Child”) (1534\/1591)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 47 George Wither (d. 1687): “That Rage Whereof the Psalm Doth Say” (1623)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 48 Luke Wadding, “For Innocents’ Day” (1684)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 49 Cecil Francis (Fanny) Alexander, “O Lord, the Holy Innocents” (1848)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 10 Children’s Bibles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 50 Children’s Bibles\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043445408087,"sku":"9781978714106","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978714106.jpg?v=1750958255","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-massacre-of-the-innocents-studies-in-the-cultural-afterlife-of-a-gospel-scene-9781978714106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}