Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural Study

ISBN-13: 9781108494359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 300 str.

Matthew Lynch

Opis

Examines four key ways that writers of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize and critique acts of violence.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Violence and Ecology: 1. A brother's blood on the land; 2. The cosmic ecology of violence; 3. Covenant and the restraint of violence in creation; Part II. Violence and Moral Speech: 4. Violent deceitfulness in the scheming heart; 5. The violence of arrogant speech; Part III. Violence and Justice: 6. The outcry of violence; 7. Judicial responses to violence; 8. Violence and the divine avenger; Part IV. Violence and Impurity: 9. Violence and the problem of impurity: key texts; 10. The rhetoric of violence and impurity; Conclusion; Appendix. Biblical terms for violence.