Map or compass? : the Bible on violence / edited by Michael Spalione and Helen Paynter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spalione, Michael, editor.

Paynter, Helen, editor.

Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, host institution.

Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence 2020 : Online)

Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. Academic Conference 2020 : Online)

Series:

Bible in the modern world ; 79.

Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies monographs ; 3.

Bible in the modern world ; 79

Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies monographs ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in the Bible--Congresses.

Violence in the Bible.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Sheffield] : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022.

Summary:

"The interpretation of biblical violence continues to present a complex challenge to interpreters, including those from belief, no belief and religious perspectives. Placing this interpretative task within the frame of generous collaboration, irenic listening, and multidisciplinary scholarship allows new perspectives to surface. These principles were key to the range of papers given at the second annual conference in 2020 of the Bristol Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence in 2020--a postgraduate research and study centre dedicated to the interpretation of biblical texts of violence. This edited book includes: three chapters which grapple with the violence of the conquest of Canaan--from Paul Copan, William Ford, and Helen Paynter; further explorations of violence in Deuteronomy, Judges, Ezekiel and Revelation; Mary Magdalene and modern sexual violence; Esther and Quentin Tarantino; contemporary representations of the crucifixion, forced marriage in Christian pedagogic materials, and a cross-reading of abattoirs and the crucifixion. This is the second of, at least, four volumes providing resources for researchers and in the classroom exploring the intersection between violence and biblical texts."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction : biblical violence in the crosshairs / Michael Spalione

Part 1. Violence in the Canaanite conquest

Finding bright spots in Old Testament warfare texts / Paul Copan

Erasing the troubling teens? : what happens to the conquest of Canaan when the non-Deuteronomistic writers tell the story? / Helen Paynter

Dispossessing the Canaanites in Deuteronomy / William Ford

Part 2. Violence in the rest of the Hebrew Bible

As long as (s)he lives : an application of William Webb's redemptive-movement hermeneutic to Deuteronomy 22.28-29 / Isaac J. McNish

Precarity and power, subjectivity and sisterhood : comparing a quadrilateral of rival wives to seek redemption for Peninnah / Margaret Blakey

Judges 19 : does the Bible victim blame the woman with no name? / dr Rebekah Legg

Dealing with the dead in Ezekiel 39.11-20 : a carnivalesque reading / Peter Norris

Part 3. New Testament violence

Lions in lambs' clothing? : a response to Middleton's The violence of the lamb : martyrs as agents of divine judgement in the book of Revelation / Helen Miller

Asking for it? : lessons from Mary Magdalene in a culture of sexual violence / Siobhán Jolley

Part 4. Ethics of biblical violence

Once upon a time in Persia : the ethics of violence in the book of Esther and Quentin Tarantino's Once upon a time in Hollywood / Brandon Hurlbert

Glorifying the Gospels : the treatment of crucifixion violence in film / Will Moore

Time for her to get married : forced marriage as a trope in Jerome Berryman's godly play / Cath H. Kennedy

The lamb on your plate : finding the crucified God in the violence of the slaughterhouse / Charlotte Thomas.

Judges 19 : does the Bible victim blame the woman with no name? / Rebekah Legg

Notes:

"The essays found in this volume consists of the proceedings from the second annual conference of the Bristol Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. This symposium met online in the fall of 2020 due to COVID-19" -- Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-260) and indexes.

ISBN:

1914490177

9781914490170

OCLC:

1350839977

Publisher Number:

99996056141