Table of contents

1. The raw death - 1.2 A secular reading of Psalm 136 - 1.3 Isaiah, Psalm 136 - 1.4 The day of wrath and vengeance: Psalm 14 - 1.4 Memory as resistance - 2. An eye for an eye - 2.1 Vengeance in coeval cultures in the Mediterranean - 2.2 Two more observations on Psalm 136: influences in Italian culture - 3. Other models of revenge in Jewish and Mediterranean cultures - 3.1 Revenge of honour and revenge in war - 3.2 Thou shalt have no other God: covenant breaking and divine revenge - 3.3 Revenge on one's own people - 3.4 Hatred and revenge in Dante: Count Ugolino