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Violent Biblical Texts: New Approaches

by Trevor Laurence , Helen Paynter
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781914490163
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
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  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: USD 97.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 626 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics

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 offer 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.

Laurence, Trevor: - Trevor Laurence is Lecturer of Biblical Studies at The King's College and Executive Director of the Cateclesia Institute. He serves as a Research Associate with the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence.

Paynter, Helen: - Helen Paynter is a Baptist minister in Bristol and works at Bristol Baptist College as Director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, and Tutor in Biblical Studies.

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