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David Tombs, ‘Crucifixion, State Terror, and Sexual Abuse’, Union Seminary Quarterly Review 53 (Autumn 1999), pp. 89-109.
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.
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.
