TY  - GEN
T1  - The violence of Scripture : overcoming the Old Testament's troubling legacy
A1  - Seibert, Eric A., 1969-
LA  - English
PP  - Minneapolis
PB  - Fortress Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn824698110
AB  - No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans. Over the years, these texts have been used to justify all sorts of violence: from colonizing people and justifying warfare, to sanctioning violence against women and children. Eric Seibert confrons the problem of "virtuous" violence and urges people to engage in an ethically responsible reading of these troublesome texts. He offers a variety of reading strategies designed to critique textually sanctioned violence, while still finding ways to use even the most difficult texts constructively, thus providing a desperately needed approach to the violence of Scripture that can help us live more peaceably in a world plagued by religious violence. --from publisher description.
OP  - 220
CN  - BS1199.V56 S45 2012eb
SN  - 9781451424324
SN  - 1451424329
SN  - 9780800698256
SN  - 0800698258
KW  - Bible. : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Bible. : Old Testament : Hermeneutics.
KW  - Bible. : Old Testament
KW  - Bibel : Altes Testament
KW  - Violence in the Bible.
KW  - Violence dans la Bible.
KW  - RELIGION : Biblical Studies : Old Testament.
KW  - RELIGION : Judaism : Sacred Writings.
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
KW  - Hermeneutics
KW  - Violence in the Bible
KW  - Gewalt
KW  - Hermeneutik
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -