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Bloody, brutal, and barbaric? : wrestling with troubling war texts /
"Christians cannot ignore the intersection of religion and violence. In our own Scriptures, war texts that appear to approve of genocidal killings and war rape raise hard questions about biblical ethics and the character of God. Have we missed something in our traditional readings? Identifying...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Downers Grove, Illinois:
IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Slaughtering children? Grabbing virgins?
- Where traditional answers do not work
- Where traditional answers do work
- Reading the Bible redemptively
- War rape, part 1: the ugly side
- War rape, part 2: the redemptive side
- War rape meets genocide
- Total-kill hyperbole, part 1: ANE warfare
- Total-kill hyperbole, part 2: Joshua and Judges
- Arguments against hyperbole
- First Samuel 15: hyperbole thesis undone?
- Drive out: an equivalent alternative
- Ancient war atrocities
- Yahweh as reluctant war God: the subversive war texts
- Cross, resurrection, and ascension: the battle is already won
- Jesus as apocalyptic warrior: one word will fell them
- Conclusion: the unfinished justice story.