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The zeal of Phinehas: The Bible and the legitimation of violence
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"The Bible, of all books, is the most dangerous one, the one that has been endowed with the power to kill," writes Mieke Bal.1 Like many striking aphorisms, this statement is not quite true. Some other books, notably the Qur'an, are surely as lethal, and in any case, to coin a phrase, books don't kill people. But Professor Bal has a point nonetheless. When it became clear that the terrorists of September 11, 2001, saw or imagined their grievances in religious terms, any reader of the Bible should have had a flash of ...
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Preventing School Violence: Is Religion the Answer?
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Violence in the Bible.(Midrash: Jewish Texts)(Essay)
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Religion and violence: a Protestant Christian perspective.
; ...scriptures that we share. Violence in the Bible The Bible begins...This attribution of violence to God is to continue...the rest of the Bible. The devastation...people. What is violence? Thus within the first few books of the Bible we come across the...
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God and Violence: Biblical Resources for Living in a Small World.(Book Review)
; ...alienated by violence in the Bible to consider...find in the Bible justification for violence that, while the Bible describes the prevalence of violence in its world...countering violence or as tempered...parts of the Bible. In this way...
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Faith Q&A: Does Bible justify use of violence?
; Reader's Question: Does the Bible justify use of violence? ___ Rabbi Mark Levin of...stories do not validate human violence. The Bible demands aggression against...of those stories excuses violence in our day. The Bible addresses God's anger, but...
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"I was only a little angry": Divine Violence in the Prophets
; ...texts out of the Bible, whether practically...concern about divine violence in the Old Testament...realization that the Bible's violence has played a part...spread of the world's violence. Altogether too...of the God of the Bible have been claimed...justification for the ...
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Grant Me Justice! HIV/AIDS and Gender Readings of the Bible.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)
; GRANT ME JUSTICE! HIV/AIDS AND GENDER READINGS OF THE BIBLE. Edited by Musa W. Dube and Musimbi Kanyoro. Maryknoll...210. $24. As the preface title indicates, Reading the Bible in the Face of HIV and AIDS is the task of this book...gender-sensitive multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS readings of the Bible (13). With ...
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In the Beginning, There Were the Holy Books: The Bible and the Qur'an both reveal the word of God. Both speak of prophets, redemption, heaven and hell. So why the violence? Searching the sacred texts for answers.
; ...all this and more. Like the Bible, the Qur'an is a book of divine...population. Over centuries, the Bible fashioned the Hebrew tribes...within the Qur'an and the Bible and the traditions that they...contain sporadic calls to violence, sprinkled throughout the...zealots in every age. The ...
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God and Violence: Biblical Resources for Living in a Small World/Conceiving Peace and Violence: A New Testament Legacy
; ...dealing with and responding to violence in Scripture. Patricia McDonald...peaceable Scriptures. Texts of violence, understood in narrative analysis...contexts, often depict the violence negatively. She asks readers...and thus perceive that the Bible provides in both Testaments...Scripture, while ...
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The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters / Postcolonial Criticism amd Biblical Interpretation
; ...emphasizes the ways in which the Bible was interpreted to "inculcate...Panare, for example, the Bible was rewritten to make the...be "displaced" before the Bible's mores could be "properly...analogies and implication," the violence of colonialism could be explained...and whereas belief in the ...
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