Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse

Tombs, David

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Cite this item: David Tombs, ‘Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse’, Union Seminary Quarterly Review 53 (Autumn 1999), pp. 89-109.
Permanent link to OUR Archive version: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6067
Abstract:
A reading of crucifixion informed by Latin American liberation theology, which foregrounds the Roman use of crucifixion as an instrument of state terror, and identifies the elements of sexual humiliation and sexual abuse in the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.
Date: 1999
Publisher: Union Seminary Quarterly Review
Pages: 89-109
Rights Statement: Copyright of Union Seminary Quarterly Review and reproduced here with permission.
Keywords: crucifixion; state terror; sexual abuse; Jesus
Research Type: Journal Article
Languages: English
Notes:
A version of this paper was first presented under the title 'Biblical Interpretation in Latin America' at the Society of Biblical Literature International Conference, Cracow, Poland, 20 July 1998.

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