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Violent Biblical Texts: New Approaches

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The thirteen articles included in this volume have been assembled for the specific purpose of offering explicitly religious perspectives on biblical violence from a globally diverse group of Christian scholars.

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This volume is one of the fruits of a series of international conferences held at the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, Bristol. The thirteen articles included here have been assembled for the specific purpose of offering explicitly religious perspectives on biblical violence from a globally diverse group of Christian scholars.

Each author faces the challenge of how to interpret violent biblical texts in ways that remain situated within a Christian construct of the Bible. These raise major challenges—via ethically confounding texts—to providing a theologically coherent interpretation of biblical violence. Each writer, in turn, offers creative and constructive ways forward in dealing with the most problematic biblical material, based on two criteria:
• addressing a particular text or hermeneutical issue in view;
• advancing an approach that is applicable to other biblical texts.
The hermeneutical approaches are neither naïve nor sceptical but rather seek to off er innovative and fruitful avenues for interpreting the text from within the Christian religion.

This book offers a variety of resources to aid the interpretation from within a specifically Christian frame of reference. Of particular note is the round-table discussion, where three leading scholars in the study of the Canaanite conquest (Paul Copan, David Firth and William Ford) dialogue with one another on the subject, in a conversation moderated by Helen Paynter.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: THE CONDITIONS OF INTERPRETATION AND THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Trevor Laurence

THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN: ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION
Helen Paynter, Paul Copan, David Firth, and William Ford

AN OLD TESTAMENT CRITIQUE OF MODERN VIOLENCE
Matthew Lynch

LIGHT AND SHADOW: INTERTEXTUAL INSIGHTS INTO CONQUEST, DELIVERANCE, AND COVENANT FAITHFULNESS
Ashley Hibbard

LAND, SEED, AND PROMISE: JACOB AS MISE EN ABYME TO ISRAEL
Helen Paynter

TAKING THE ABSURDITY SERIOUSLY: QUESTIONING THE COMPLICITY OF YHWH IN JUDGES 20–21
Brandon M. Hurlbert

VIOLENT PRAYERS OF LOVE: AN ETHICAL (RE)ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPRECATORY PSALMS
Trevor Laurence

‘LET SINNERS BE CONSUMED’: THE CURIOUS CONCLUSION OF PSALM 104
Trevor Laurence

PROPHETIC MINISTRY IN JEREMIAH 20.7-18: ‘VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION’, AND PARADOXICAL HOPE FOR A SHATTERED COMMUNITY
Lissa M. Wray Beal

GREEN-EYED AND GROWING VERY ANGRY: AN INTERTEXTUAL READING OF MARITAL VIOLENCE IN EZEKIEL 23
Havilah Dharamraj

NOT CRUCIFORM ENOUGH: GETTING OUR HERMENEUTICAL BEARINGS IN THE WAKE OF A BOYDIAN REINTERPRETATION
Paul Copan

FIRST THINGS FIRST: THE WHITE HORSE, ITS RIDER, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION
Stephen Finamore

REDEEMING THE PROSTITUTE? BABYLON AND HER FATE IN REVELATION
Helen Paynter

Bibliography
Index of References
General Index

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Editors
Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter
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£70 / $97.50 / €80
Series
Bible in the Modern World, 80; SCIBS, 4
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ISBN 13 hardback
978-1-914490-16-3
Format
Hardback
Page Extent
x + 310
Publication Date
October 2022
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