Map or Compass?: The Bible on Violence (Bible in the Modern World)

by Michael Spalione; Helen Paynter

Publisher:

Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd

, 2022

Overview

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.

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Key Features

• Emphasizes the intersection between violence and biblical texts.
• Includes three chapters which grapple with the violence of the conquest of Canaan.
• Presents contemporary representations of the crucifixion.

Contents

• List of Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Biblical Violence in the Crosshairs
• Part 1 Violence in the Canaanite Conquest
• Finding Bright Spots in Old Testament Warfare Texts
• Erasing the Troubling Teens? What Happens to the Conquest of Canaan when the non-Deuteronomistic Biblical Writers Tell the Story?
• ‘Dispossessing’ the Canaanites in Deuteronomy
• 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
• Precarity and Power, Subjectivity and Sisterhood: Comparing a Quadrilateral of Rival Wives to Seek Redemption for Peninnah
• Judges 19: Does the Bible Victim Blame the Women with No Name?
• Dealing with the Dead in Ezekiel 39.11-20: A Carnivalesque Reading
• 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
• Asking for it? Lessons from Mary Magdalene in a Culture of Sexual Violence
• 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
• Gorifying the Gospels: The Treatment of Crucifixion Violence in Film
• Time for her to Get Married: Forced Marriage as a Trope in Jerome Berryman’s Godly Play
• The Lamb on Your Plate: Finding the Crucified God in the Violence of the Slaughterhouse
• Bibliography
• Index of References
• General Index

Product Details

• Title: Map or Compass?: The Bible on Violence (Bible in the Modern World)
• Authors: Michael Spalione, Helen Paynter
• Series: Bible in the Modern World
• Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Pages: 280
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781914490170, 1914490177
• Resource ID: LLS:MPRCMPSSBBLVLNC
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-27T01:04:40Z