Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural StudyCambridge University Press, 30 apr 2020 - 300 pagina's Most studies on violence in the Hebrew Bible focus on the question of how modern readers should approach the problem. But they fail to ask how the Hebrew Bible thinks about that problem in the first place. In this work, Matthew J. Lynch examines four key ways that writers of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize and critique acts of violence: violence as an ecological problem; violence as a moral problem; violence as a judicial problem; violence as a purity problem. These four 'grammars of violence' help us interpret crucial biblical texts where violence plays a lead role, like Genesis 4-9. Lynch's volume also offers readers ways to examine cultural continuity and the distinctiveness of biblical conceptions of violence. |
Inhoudsopgave
A Brothers Blood on the Land | 23 |
The Cosmic Ecology of Violence | 52 |
Covenant and the Restraint of Violence in Creation | 70 |
Violent Deceitfulness in the Scheming Heart ΙΟΙ | 101 |
The Violence of Arrogant Speech | 120 |
The Outcry of Violence | 151 |
Judicial Responses to Violence | 167 |
Violence and the Divine Avenger | 205 |
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Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural Study Matthew J. Lynch Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2020 |
Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural Study Matthew J. Lynch Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2022 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abel Abel's blood accusation Ancient animals arrogant avenger biblical writers bloodguilt bloodshed Cain Cain and Abel Cain's capital punishment chapter child sacrifice cleansing conceptions of violence covenant covenantal creation cries crime cultural curse David death deceit describe Deut Deuteronomic Code Deuteronomy disgust divine earth ecological enemy Exod Ezek Ezekiel flood God's grammars Grand Rapids ground Hebrew Bible highlights human idolatry injustice innocent blood instance Isaiah Israel Israelites Jacob Milgrom John Knox John Knox Press judicial justice Lamech land's Leviticus lex talionis metaphor murder Nabal narrative Noah NRSV Numbers Old Testament oppression outcry phrase physical pollution Priestly problem of violence prophet protection psalmist Psalms punishment purification purity refers relationship response restoration rhetoric ritual ruin scheming sexual shed blood social speech story suggests talionis taunting uncleanness vengeance verbal verse victim violent acts wicked woman words Yhwh Yhwh's דם דמים חמס