Scripture and Violence

ISBN-13: 9780815362579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str.

Julia Snyder; Daniel H. Weiss

Opis

Exploring the complex relationship between scriptural texts and real-world acts of violence, this book an essential read for students and academics studying religion and violence, Abrahamic religions, or scriptural interpretation. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction: scripture and violence – is there a bomb in this text?  2. Reading and debating the Qur’an with ISIS  3. "And God said": do biblical commands to conquer land make people more violent, or less?  4. Invoking the Qurʾan in a Muslim debate over suicide attacks  5. Texts and violence in modern Israel: interpreting Pinchas  6. Why saying "only some Muslims are violent"  is no better than saying "all Muslims are violent" 7. Left behind? The New Testament and American evangelical Christian support for war  8. "There never was and never will be": violence and interpretive erasure in the Jewish tradition  9. Reading scripture reverentially but not univocally: why words in themselves are not dangerous  10. Wrestling with scripture and avoiding violence in the university classroom