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The Immoral Bible - Approaches to Biblical Ethics (Paperback, New)
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The Immoral Bible - Approaches to Biblical Ethics (Paperback, New)
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This title discusses the ethically problematic passages of the
Hebrew Bible and the way scholars have addressed aspects of the
bible generally regarded as offensive and unacceptable. In this
work, Eryl W. Davies sums up a career's worth of in-depth
reflection on the thorny issue of biblical ethics examining the
bible's, at times problematic, stance upon slavery, polygamy and
perhaps its most troublesome aspect, the sanctioning of violence
and warfare. This is most pertinent in respect to Joshua 6-11 a
text which lauds the 'holy war' of the Israelites, annihilating the
native inhabitants of Canaan, and a text which has been used to
legitimise the actions of white colonists in North America, the
Boers in South Africa and right-wing Zionists in modern Israel.
Davies begins with an introductory chapter assessing all these
aspects, he then provides five chapters, each devoted to a
particular strategy aimed at mitigating the embarrassment caused by
the presence of such problematic texts within the canon. In order
to focus discussion each strategy is linked by to Joshua 6-11.
There is a final chapter that draws the threads of the arguments
together and suggests the most promising areas for the future
development of the discipline.
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