The violence of Scripture : overcoming the Old Testament's troubling legacy /
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 vi...
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press
©2012.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt22h6sv9 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Introduction: the Bible should never be used to harm others
- The Old Testament's troubling legacy
- The pervasive presence of "virtuous" violence in the Old Testament
- The danger of reading the Bible
- Developing good reading habits: becoming ethically responsible readers
- Reading the Old Testament nonviolently
- Confronting Canaanite genocide and its toxic afterlife
- Keeping the Old Testament from being used to justify war
- Preventing violence against women
- The necessity and urgency of reading the Old Testament nonviolently: some conclusions.