T M Lemos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5143999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T M Lemos |
| GIVEN NAMES | T M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemos |
| SIGNATURE | LEMOS T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6823-6584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
We became refuse and rubbish’
While frameworks of purity and impurity were widespread in ancient West Asia and well known before the exile, many exilic and postexilic sources focalize purity concerns. This article will explore the connection between ancient West Asian texts associating or equating conquered groups with filth and disgust-eliciting substances and the focus on impurity-removal that is so obtrusive in post-exilic biblical sources. I will argue that the rituals of…
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Volume I offers an introductory survey of the phenomenon of genocide. The first five chapters examine its major recurring themes, while the further nineteen are specific case studies. The combination of thematic and empirical approaches illuminates the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and the connections linking various cases from earliest times to the early modern era. The themes examined include the …
Cambridge World History of Genocide
Com fôlego e látego
Este artigo explora a maneira como as passagens de Isaías que resistem à violência são neutralizadas pelas inúmeras passagens do livro que a promovem. Mais especificamente, o artigo sustenta que o livro apresenta uma relação ambivalente em relação à pessoalidade de dominação, um tipo de pessoalidade que é dependente da violência desumanizadora. A disseminação de imagens de violência e armas em Isaías está ligada à relação problemática do livro co…
With Breath and Bludgeon
This article explores how the passages in Isaiah that resist violence are undone by the many passages in the book that promote it. More specifically, the article contends that Isaiah features an ambivalent relationship toward “domination personhood,” a type of personhood reliant on dehumanizing violence. The pervasiveness of images of violence and weaponry in Isaiah relates to the book’s problematic relationship with domination personhood. Noneth…
Of Dogs and Men
This chapter summarizes the evidence from the previous chapters, making clear that the conception of personhood most widespread in ancient Israel was one closely tied to dominance. Only the personhood of a socially dominant man was a complete personhood, and dominance was constructed in such a manner that dominant men were entitled to abrogate the personhood of subordinates through physical violence. This point leads to a comparison of the relati…
Dogs beneath the Tables of Men
The introduction to this book begins with a few striking examples from both ancient and contemporary contexts of the use of violence in shifting categories of personhood, illustrating why this study is important and necessary. The chapter briefly outlines for readers the major approaches to violence and personhood offered in anthropological circles in the past few decades. Philosophical approaches to personhood also receive some attention, with t…
For He Is Your Property
This chapter assesses the relationship between the subordination of slaves and their personhood, emphasizing how the particular nature of the subordination of slaves made them susceptible to violence. The chapter considers both biblical and extra-biblical evidence for the status of both foreign and native-born, female and male slaves. The evidence seems to imply that debt slaves were considered persons, though the status of female slaves was lowe…
Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts
How should the human body be treated? Should bodies be slaughtered, starved, tortured, sold, and shot in the streets? Whose bodies should be treated in these ways and whose protected from harm? Who has the right to seek redress in cases of abuse and who is seen as fit for dehumanization? This book addresses these very questions, examining materials from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, ancient Near Eastern literature, and contemporary American soc…
Physical Violence and the Boundaries of Personhood in the Hebrew Bible
This article examines the connection between Israelite conceptions of personhood and physical violence, focusing on the question of who was considered a person in ancient Israel, and argues that violence was often used to shift the status of individuals from that of person to non-person.
The Universal and the Particular
Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts
How should the human body be treated? Should bodies be slaughtered, starved, tortured, sold, and shot in the streets? Whose bodies should be treated in these ways and whose protected from harm? Who has the right to seek redress in cases of abuse and who is seen as fit for dehumanization? This book addresses these very questions, examining materials from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, ancient Near Eastern literature, and contemporary American soc…
The Universal and the Particular
The Universal and the Particular
Physical Violence and the Boundaries of Personhood in the Hebrew Bible
This article examines the connection between Israelite conceptions of personhood and physical violence, focusing on the question of who was considered a person in ancient Israel, and argues that violence was often used to shift the status of individuals from that of person to non-person.
Of Dogs and Men
This chapter summarizes the evidence from the previous chapters, making clear that the conception of personhood most widespread in ancient Israel was one closely tied to dominance. Only the personhood of a socially dominant man was a complete personhood, and dominance was constructed in such a manner that dominant men were entitled to abrogate the personhood of subordinates through physical violence. This point leads to a comparison of the relati…
Dogs beneath the Tables of Men
The introduction to this book begins with a few striking examples from both ancient and contemporary contexts of the use of violence in shifting categories of personhood, illustrating why this study is important and necessary. The chapter briefly outlines for readers the major approaches to violence and personhood offered in anthropological circles in the past few decades. Philosophical approaches to personhood also receive some attention, with t…
For He Is Your Property
This chapter assesses the relationship between the subordination of slaves and their personhood, emphasizing how the particular nature of the subordination of slaves made them susceptible to violence. The chapter considers both biblical and extra-biblical evidence for the status of both foreign and native-born, female and male slaves. The evidence seems to imply that debt slaves were considered persons, though the status of female slaves was lowe…
Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts
How should the human body be treated? Should bodies be slaughtered, starved, tortured, sold, and shot in the streets? Whose bodies should be treated in these ways and whose protected from harm? Who has the right to seek redress in cases of abuse and who is seen as fit for dehumanization? This book addresses these very questions, examining materials from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, ancient Near Eastern literature, and contemporary American soc…
Com fôlego e látego
Este artigo explora a maneira como as passagens de Isaías que resistem à violência são neutralizadas pelas inúmeras passagens do livro que a promovem. Mais especificamente, o artigo sustenta que o livro apresenta uma relação ambivalente em relação à pessoalidade de dominação, um tipo de pessoalidade que é dependente da violência desumanizadora. A disseminação de imagens de violência e armas em Isaías está ligada à relação problemática do livro co…
With Breath and Bludgeon
This article explores how the passages in Isaiah that resist violence are undone by the many passages in the book that promote it. More specifically, the article contends that Isaiah features an ambivalent relationship toward “domination personhood,” a type of personhood reliant on dehumanizing violence. The pervasiveness of images of violence and weaponry in Isaiah relates to the book’s problematic relationship with domination personhood. Noneth…
The Cambridge World History of Genocide
Volume I offers an introductory survey of the phenomenon of genocide. The first five chapters examine its major recurring themes, while the further nineteen are specific case studies. The combination of thematic and empirical approaches illuminates the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and the connections linking various cases from earliest times to the early modern era. The themes examined include the …
Cambridge World History of Genocide
We became refuse and rubbish’
While frameworks of purity and impurity were widespread in ancient West Asia and well known before the exile, many exilic and postexilic sources focalize purity concerns. This article will explore the connection between ancient West Asian texts associating or equating conquered groups with filth and disgust-eliciting substances and the focus on impurity-removal that is so obtrusive in post-exilic biblical sources. I will argue that the rituals of…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Personhood (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy (4 works) · Dehumanization (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)