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A Cry Instead of Justice - The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological Perspective (Hardcover)
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A Cry Instead of Justice - The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological Perspective (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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Within a book widely touted as the path to peace, violence has
incongruously been central to the Bible and how it is used. This
collection book examines the manifestations of violence in
Scripture, and the ways that Scripture itself - whether violent in
content or not - can be used to justify violence and aggression in
specific social circumstances today. The book is divided into two
parts. The first half explores some incidents of Biblical violence
that, rather than appearing at the forefront of the narrative,
reflect that ancient Jewish culture (including the early Christian
movement recorded in the New Testament) treats violence as an
undeniable fact of the social world in which biblical figures live.
In these essays, psychological theory and interpretation focus on
the effect of this culture of violence in the behavior,
expectations, and failures of Biblical figures, in order to
re-evaluate the messages of these texts in light of their accepted,
but largely unacknowledged,aggression. The second half uses
psychological models to understand how Biblical doctrine and ideals
shape the world in which we live, and introduce patterns of
aggression and acceptance of violence into family, cultural, and
political situations. Altogether, this collection of essays seeks
to shed light on how the Bible relates to violence - and how many
people relate to violence, consciously or not, through the stories
and dynamics.
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