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Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural Study
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Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural Study Hardcover - 2020

by Matthew J. Lynch


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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.

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  • Title Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary and Cultural Study
  • Author Matthew J. Lynch
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2020-04-30
  • ISBN 9781108494359 / 1108494358
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.09 x 6.28 x 0.83 in (23.09 x 15.95 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Violence in the Bible
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019051266
  • Dewey Decimal Code 221.830
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