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Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide - Christian Interpretations of Herem Passages (Hardcover)
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Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide - Christian Interpretations of Herem Passages (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
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The divine commands to annihilate the seven nations living in
Canaan (to 'devote them to destruction', herem in Biblical Hebrew)
are perhaps the most morally troubling texts of the Hebrew and
Christian bibles. Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide: Christian
Interpretations of Herem Passages addreses the challenges these
texts pose. It presents the various ways in which interpreters from
the first century to the twenty-first have attempted to make sense
of them. The most troubling approach was no doubt to read them as
divine sanction and inspiration for violence and war: the analysis
of the use of herem texts in the crusades, the inquisition, and
various colonial conquests illustrates this violent way of reading
the texts, which has such alarming contemporary relevance. Three
additional approaches can also be traced to antiquity, viz.
pre-critical, non-literal, and divine-command-theory readings.
Finally, critics of Christianity from antiquity via the
Enlightenment to today have referenced herem texts: their critical
voices are included as well. Christian Hofreiter combines a
presentation of a wide range of historical sources with careful
analysis that scrutinizes the arguments made and locates the texts
in their wider contexts. Influential contributions of such
well-known figures as Augustine, Origen, Gregory the Great, Thomas
Aquinas, and John Calvin are included, as well as those of critics
such as Marcion, Celsus and Matthew Tindal, and less widely known
texts such as crusading histories, songs and sermons, colonial
conquest accounts, and inquisition manuals. The book thus sheds new
light on the ways in which these texts have shaped the thoughts and
actions of their readers through the centuries, and offers
pertinent insights into how readers might be able to make sense of
them today.
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