Encountering violence in the Bible / edited by Markus Zehnder and Hallvard Hagelia.
Series: Bible in the modern world ; 55.Publication details: Sheffield [England] : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.Description: 309 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 190969701X
- 9781909697010
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Dalton McCaughey Library | Level 1 | CD34 Z44 | Checked out | 23/04/2024 | 33865001540324 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface -- Introduction -- Why must Israel be warriors?: the constructive role of warfare in Deuteronomy / Joshua Berman -- Uzzah's fate (2 Samuel 6): a theological problem for the modern reader / Lennart Bostrm̲ -- God's power and man's vicegerency on earth : violence as an ethical challenge in Islam / Friedmann Eissler -- Hasmonean state ideology, wars and expansionism / LarsOlov Eriksson -- Violence against Judah and Jerusalem: the rhetoric of destruction within Jeremiah 1-6 / Karin Finsterbusch -- Who is violent and why? : Pharaoh and God in Exodus 1-15 as a model for violence in the Bible / Georg Fischer -- Violence and the God of the Old Testament / Terence E. Fretheim -- Violence, judgment and ethics in the Book of Amos / Hallvard Hagelia -- Understanding images of violence in the Book of Revelation / Dana M. Harris -- Rest for the wary : cities of refuge and cycles of violence / Robert L. Hubbard, Jr. -- Divine violence and the Dead Sea Scrolls / ¿rstein Justnes -- Human 'dominion' and being 'like God' : an exploration of peace, violence and truth in the Old Testament / Gordon McConville -- The violent God of the Old Testament : reading strategies and responsibility / Kirsten Nielsen -- Lectio vehementior potior: scribal violence on violent texts? / Tommy Wasserman -- Holy war, divine war, YHWH war, and ethics: on a central issue in recent research on the Hebrew Bible / Karl William Weyde -- Strategies for the prevention of the use of legitimate forms of force in the Sermon on the Mount and the problem of violence / Peter Wick -- The annihilation of the Canaanites : reassessing the brutality of the biblical witness / Markus Zehnder.