Full Description
The Bible and Violence is a definitive, inclusive, and comprehensive two-volume reference work on the challenging and troubling theme of biblical violence. This is the first major resource to cover this topic, and it does so across 100 specially commissioned contributions. The contributors outline the range, depth and varieties of violence in biblical texts, and the violent ramifications of uses and receptions of the bible in history and culture.
Volume one covers specific textual instances of violence within the bible, from the Hebrew Bible through to the New Testament, as well as issues relevant to biblical times, such as sacrificial violence, and Messianism and violence. The resource also provides articles on apocryphal and Gnostic texts.
Volume two looks at violent uses of biblical texts through history and culture, and the violent ramifications of various readings of the bible. Topics covered include Islamophobia, homophobia, racism, violence against women, sex work and slavery, and colonial violence. Some specific treated in greater depth include the Aids Crisis and Apartheid.
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Foreword by Rachel Starr on The Hebrew Bible
Foreword by Mitzi Smith on the Second (or New) Testament
Foreword by Tat-siong Benny Liew on Violent Uses of the Bible
Introduction by the Editorial Team (Chris Greenough, Johnathan Jodamus, Mmapula Kebaneilwe and Johanna Stiebert)
Part 1: Violence in the Hebrew Bible
H?erem (?????) and H?a¯ma¯s (?????): A Focused Study
by Michael DeVries
Violence in Paradise: Reading Genesis 1:1-2:4a from a Samoan Taulima Hermeneutical Perspective
by Arthur Wulf
Violence in Genesis 12-50
by Megan Warner
Violence in Exodus 1-15
by Kwan-Hung Leo Li
Violence in Exodus 19-40
by Trevor Laurence
Violence in Leviticus
by Ashley Hibbard
Violence in the Book of Numbers
by Helen Paynter
Violence at Its Extreme and Moral Disengagement in Deuteronomy
by Sonia Kwok Wong
Violence in Joshua
by Chauncey Diego Francisco Handy
Nobody Is Safe: Systems of Oppression, Ambiguity and the Use of Violence in Judges
by Katherine Southwood
Grasping the Threshold: A Consideration of Family Violence in Judges 19
by Amy Kalmanofsky
Violence in the David Narrative: A Divine Order
by Barbara Thiede
God's Violence, and the People Who Follow: A Look at 1 and 2 Samuel
by Robert Monson
Violence in the Book of Kings
by Helen Paynter
Veiled Violence and Its Victims: A Challenge to Reading Practices
by Gina Hens-Piazza
Violence in 1-2 Chronicles: Retribution, Residue, and Redaction
by Brandon M. Hurlbert
Violence in Ezra and Nehemiah: Purity, Holiness and Power
by Rebeca Cabrera Piñango
Imperial Violence and Community Identity in Ezra-Nehemiah
by David Janzen
Violence and the Book of Esther
by Katherine Gwyther
Violence and the Book of Job
by Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe
Something Baaaaad is Happening in Bethlehem: A Wicked Reading of Violence in the Book of Ruth
by Kimberly D. Russaw
Violence in Ecclesiastes
by Kathryn Imray
Violence in the Book of Psalms
by Mark S. Aidoo
Violence in Proverbs:
A Talanoa of the Other Woman with the Wife of Job
by Brian Fiu Kolia
Violence in the Book of Lamentations
by Deborah Kahn-Harris
Violence and the Song of Songs
by Laura Quick
Violence in Isaiah
by Dominic S. Irudayaraj
The Violence of Jeremiah
by Charles H. Middleburgh
'Let us Strike Him with the Tongue!' The Violence of Speech in Isaiah and Jeremiah
by Samuel Hildebrandt
Violence in The Book of Ezekiel: An Overview
by Safwat Marzouk
Physical and Sexual Violence in Ezekiel
by Emily Allsopp
Themes of Violence in Joel and Jonah
by Alastair Hunter
Violence in the Books of Amos & Micah
by Jayme R. Reaves
Violence in the Minor Prophets: Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
by Laura Carlson Hasler
Violence in Hosea
by Göran Eidevall
Violence in Obadiah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah
by Stacy Davis
Violence in the Book of Daniel
by F. Victor Moulder
Genocidal Language in the Hebrew Bible: A Reappraisal
by M. I. Rey
Animals, Violence and Animal Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible
by Rebekah Welton
"Spoil Speeds, Booty Hastens!" (Isaiah 8:3): Despoliation of the Dead as a Violent Cultural Phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
by Ekaterina Kozlova
On Censoring Biblical Narratives of Sexual Violence in the Synagogue
by Tali Artman Partock
Violence and Migration in the Bible
by Daniel Smith-Christopher
War and Violence in the Hebrew Bible
by Andrew Mein and Madhavi Nevader
Part 2: Violence and the Second or New Testament
(with Apocrypha/deuterocanonical books, Gnostic and Dead Sea Scrolls texts)
Anti-Jewish and Antisemitic Violence and the New Testament
by Christine Shepardson
Sexual Violence in the Crucifixion of Jesus
by David Tombs
Patriarchal and Colonial Violence in Exegetical Interpretations of the Women in Jesus's Genealogy
by Sébastien Doane
Sacrifice / Sacrificial violence
By Jeremy Punt
Violence in the Synoptic Gospels
by Stephen D. Moore
Violence, Power and Colonialism in Matthew's Gospel: Reading for/as Active Nonviolent Resistance
by Mothy Varkey
Violence in the Gospel of John
by Stephen D. Moore
A Bird's Eye View of the Acts of the Apostles: Birthing the Early Church in violence?
by Nina Müller van Velden
Violence in the (Genuine) Letters of Paul
by Sabine Bieberstein
Witnessing to Paul's Somatic Stories: Reading 1 Corinthians 9:27 and 2 Corinthians 4:10 with a Hermeneutic of Trauma
by Grace Emmett
Divine Violence in the General Letters
of the New Testament: A Case Study of Hebrews 10:26-31
by Luis Quiñones-Román
Human Violence in the New Testament General Letters
by Nikki Mann
Violence and the Revelation of John
by Joachim Kügler
The Violence of Hell
by Robyn J. Whitaker
Violence Beyond Biblical Texts - A Selection
Eschatological Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Michael De Vries
Unveiling Ancient Conflict: Exploring Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Jamal-Dominique Hopkins
Physical and Sexual Violence in the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical Books
by Bailey Freeburn
The Maccabean Martyr Stories and the Question of Religious Violence
by Naomi Janowitz
Violence in the Nag Hammadi Texts: Reading Sexual Violence and Trauma in Nag Hammadi Codex II
by Rikki Wenxin Liu
Part 3 - Violent Case Studies and Uses of the Bible
Hebrew Bible
Reading the Story of Jephthah's Daughter (Judg. 11) in the Light of Contemporary Experiences of Spiritual Abuse
by Kirsi Cobb and Sarah Molyneux-Hetherington
Critical Empathy and Reading Judges 21: A Self-Critical Corrective
by Katherine E. Southwood
The Bible and the Violence of Translation: The Sordid Case of Ezekiel 16 and the Suppression of the Rape of Jerusalem
by L.S. Stone
Trafficking and Enslavement in the Hebrew Bible
by Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Greek or New Testament
Script(ur)ing Violence: Pedagogical Approaches to teaching the Pauline Epistles
by Johnathan Jodamus
Mental Illness Metaphor and Colonial Sarcasm in Mark's Gospel: A Postcolonial Optic
by Zorodzai Dube
A Wor(l)d Without Violence Against Women?
Toward Reckoning with the Historic Patriarchy of 'Our' faith in John 8:1-11
by Miranda Pillay
Feminism, Gender and Sexualities
Promising Equality, Scaffolding Violence: Complementarianism as gender-regime, masculinity and gendered violence
by Rosie Clare Shorter
Biblical and Religious Themes in Extreme Right-Wing Discourses
by Kathryn Barber and Emily Powell
Incel Ideologies, Misogynistic Terrorism and the Bible
by Chris Greenough
Seeing Hidden Crimes: Visual Art as Witness to Violence against Biblical Women
by Holly Morse
"Just don't be gay." Contextually reading the Bible in the context of Homophobic Hate Crime in South Africa
by Charlene van der Walt
A Triptych of Biblical Violence Towards Gay and Transgender Christians: The Case of Malaysia
by Joseph N. Goh
The Bible and Transphobia: The Violence of Binarism
by Alex Clare-Young
The Bible, Intersex Being and (Biomedical) Violence
by Susannah Cornwall
Reading against Homophobic Violence:
Contextual Bible Reading with Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugees in Kenya
by Adriaan van Klinken, Johanna Stiebert, with Sebyala Brian and Fredrick Hudson
Violence and Biblical Sex Work
by Sarah Nicholson
Violence and Bodies
The Bible and the Violence of Fat Shaming
by Hannah Bacon
The Violence of Disablism in Biblical Literature
by Eleanor Vivian
The Bible and Abortion Activism: Violence and Averting Violence
by Sarah-Jane Page and Pam Lowe
The Ideological Dilemma of Suicide in Uganda: African Bible Hermeneutical Perspectives
by Robert Kuloba Wabyanga
Religious Violence / Sexual Abuse
Rape Culture and the Bible: the efficiency of rape and rape propaganda
by Grace Smith
Violence, Trauma, and the Bible
by Alexiana Fry
The Uses of Biblical Texts and God Language by Religious Organisations in the Worldwide Sexual Abuse Crisis of Children
by Kathleen McPhillips
The Bible, Heresy and Violence
by Nick Thompson
The Ethics of Citing Violent (Bible) Scholars
by Johanna Stiebert and Barbara Thiede
Violent Themes
The Bible and Slow/Everyday Violence
by Amy C. Cottrill
Violence and Absence of Violence in Contemporary Literary Retellings of the David Narrative
by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
'History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes':
Exploring Literary Representations of Violence in Bible in/and Literature
by L. Juliana Claassens
The Bible and Violence in Crime Fiction: Intertextual Echoes of the Book of Revelation in Three Contemporary Novels
by Alison Jack
Theology/Ideology and Violence
The Bible and Violence: Modern Black Readers, Art, and Black Liberation Theology
by Allen Dwight Callahan
The Psychological Violence of Shunning in the Jehovah's Witnesses
by Heather Spooner
Praying Vengeance as Loving Your Enemies?: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christological Creatureliness
by Tim Judson
The Bible, Violence and Zionism
by Ruth Atack
Contextual Global Perspectives
The Bible and Violence in Indian Tribal Christian Communities
by Chingboi Guite Phaipi
Te Paipera Tapu me te Patu Tangata:
Violent Texts and Historical Trauma from a Maori Perspective
by Te Aroha Rountree and Paul Reynolds
The Hebrew Bible and Violence: A legacy of Colonial Hermeneutics in Southern Africa
By T. K. Mapfeka
The Violence of North American Settler Use of Biblical Texts
by Matthew Anderson
Striking like the Morning Star: How can Song of Songs 6:4-10 prevent domestic abuse?
by Erin Martine Hutton
Liberative Bible Readings to Combat Violence at Talitha Qumi Centre Legon, Ghana
by Joyce Boham
Resisting interlocking systems of violence: the Ujamaa Centre's CBS praxis
by Gerald West, Sithembiso Zwane and Charlene van der Walt
