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Encountering Violence in the Bible

Name: Encountering Violence in the Bible
Price: 60.84 GBP
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Author: Markus Zehnder
ISBN: 9781909697010

by Markus Zehnder, Hallvard Hagelia

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322 pages
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

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For scholars and serious Bible students.

Explains how to view violent biblical texts.

Equips you to handle tough questions of faith.

A scholarly exploration of how we should understand and respond to the challenging theme of violence in the Bible.

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Our world is full of violence, with repeated acts of terrorism and generally rising rates of violent criminal acts as the most obvious forms of the phenomenon in the Western world. It even reached the peaceful shores of Norway in the summer of 2011. This was one of the reasons why the first international meeting of the Norwegian Summer Academy for Biblical Studies was devoted to the topic 'Violence as an Ethical Challenge in the Bible'. Eighteen biblical scholars from nine different countries (Joshua Berman, Lennart Bostr