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The Bible on violence : a thick description / edited by Helen Paynter and Michael Spalione.

Contributor(s): Paynter, Helen [editor.] | Spalione, Michael [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Sheffield Insitute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies Monographs ; 1Bible in the modern world: 73.Publisher: [Sheffield] : Sheffield Phoenix Press , 2020Description: xv, 374 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781910928707; 1910928704Subject(s): Violence in the Bible | Violence -- Biblical teachingDDC classification: 220.83036 LOC classification: BS680.V55 | B53 2020Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Part I: Introduction. Towards a thick description of Biblical violence / Helen Paynter.
Part II: Appropriation of the Bible for violence. John Ball and the Bible of violence in the 1381 English uprising / James Crossley -- On the impossibility of imitating Biblical violence / Matthew Rowley.
Part III: Reading Biblical violence. The midrash of Lilith: A Christian adoption of Jewish feminist hermeneutical response to violence in women's narratives / Charlotte Trombin -- Militance, motherhood, and masculinisation: How is gender constructed in Judges 4 and 5? / Will Moore -- 'He did not know when she lay down or when she rose': Lot's daughters as resourceful tricksters / Hannah Kay Capey -- Redeeming Peninnah: Exploring issues of power, privilege and victimhood in 1 Samuel 1 and 2 / Margaret Blakey -- Between the Song of Songs and Lamentations: Violence in the divine-human relationship / Deborah Kahn-Harris -- No condemnation? The Old Testament's puzzling treatment of Persian violence / Peter Hatton -- A charter for domestic violence? The subordination of slaves and wives in 1 Peter / Steve Carter -- A nonviolence reading of violent texts: An introduction into three recent Anabaptist approaches / Daniël Drost.
Part IV: The Bible in conversation with modern violence. You can pull people out of the fire, but why did it start in the first place? Locating Grenfell between the powers and the cross / Charlotte Moore -- 'I will hear their cry': On land and the pilgrim church -- Sunday school hero or suicide bomber? Reading Samson responsibly / Peter King -- Re-identifying the sexual violence of the Bible: a critical reading of past commentary and its support of rape myth within Christian teaching / Monica Jones -- #MeToo Jesus: Naming Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse / Jayme R. Reaves and David Tombs -- Rape culture in sermons on divorce / Valerie Hobbs.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 East BS680.V55 B53 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903556070

Papers drawn from the inaugural academic conference of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence (CSBV) in June 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I: Introduction. Towards a thick description of Biblical violence / Helen Paynter.

Part II: Appropriation of the Bible for violence. John Ball and the Bible of violence in the 1381 English uprising / James Crossley -- On the impossibility of imitating Biblical violence / Matthew Rowley.

Part III: Reading Biblical violence. The midrash of Lilith: A Christian adoption of Jewish feminist hermeneutical response to violence in women's narratives / Charlotte Trombin -- Militance, motherhood, and masculinisation: How is gender constructed in Judges 4 and 5? / Will Moore -- 'He did not know when she lay down or when she rose': Lot's daughters as resourceful tricksters / Hannah Kay Capey -- Redeeming Peninnah: Exploring issues of power, privilege and victimhood in 1 Samuel 1 and 2 / Margaret Blakey -- Between the Song of Songs and Lamentations: Violence in the divine-human relationship / Deborah Kahn-Harris -- No condemnation? The Old Testament's puzzling treatment of Persian violence / Peter Hatton -- A charter for domestic violence? The subordination of slaves and wives in 1 Peter / Steve Carter -- A nonviolence reading of violent texts: An introduction into three recent Anabaptist approaches / Daniël Drost.

Part IV: The Bible in conversation with modern violence. You can pull people out of the fire, but why did it start in the first place? Locating Grenfell between the powers and the cross / Charlotte Moore -- 'I will hear their cry': On land and the pilgrim church -- Sunday school hero or suicide bomber? Reading Samson responsibly / Peter King -- Re-identifying the sexual violence of the Bible: a critical reading of past commentary and its support of rape myth within Christian teaching / Monica Jones -- #MeToo Jesus: Naming Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse / Jayme R. Reaves and David Tombs -- Rape culture in sermons on divorce / Valerie Hobbs.

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