Unspeakable Things: Drawing upon the Nanjing Massacre to Read Crucifixion as an Assault on Human Dignity’

David Tombs

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-5081-2_3

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Unspeakable Things: Drawing upon the Nanjing Massacre to Read Crucifixion as an Assault on Human Dignity’

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Unspeakable Things: Drawing upon the Nanjing Massacre to Read Crucifixion as an Assault on Human Dignity’

David Tombs

Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice: A Chinese Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Global Perspectives, Vol.3, pp.33-51

Springer Nature, 1st ed.

26/06/2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5081-2_3

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Crucifixion

Biblical hermeneutics

Nanjing massacre

human dignity

What might be gained from a reading of crucifixion in light of an atrocity like the Nanjing massacre? This chapter suggests that an acknowledgment of the ‘unspeakable things’ of the 1937 Nanjing massacre offers important insights into Roman crucifixions. Drawing on Iris Chang’s influential book, The Rape of Nanking (1997), it suggests a number of features in the violence at Nanjing that might help towards a more informed reading of the biblical accounts of crucifixion as assaults on human dignity.

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Record Identifier: 9926479645401891
Title: Unspeakable Things: Drawing upon the Nanjing Massacre to Read Crucifixion as an Assault on Human Dignity’
Creators: David Tombs
Contributors: Xie Zhibin (Editor)
Pauline Kollontai (Editor)
Sebastian Kim (Editor)
Academic Unit: Centre for Theology and Public Issues; Theology
Publication Details: Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice: A Chinese Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Global Perspectives, Vol.3, pp.33-51; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5081-2
Publisher: Springer Nature
Date published ; e-published: 26/06/2020
Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. All rights reserved. This version in OUR Archive is the author’s manuscript accepted for publication after peer-review, provided for research purposes and private study. The published version is: Tombs, D. (2020). Unspeakable Things: Drawing upon the Nanjing Massacre to Read Crucifixion as an Assault on Human Dignity’. In X. Zhibin, P. Kollontai, & S. Kim (Eds.), Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social Justice: A Chinese Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Global Perspectives (pp. 33–51). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5081-2_3. The author's accepted manuscript (AAM) is made available in accordance with the publisher’s policy.

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