Violence and the New Testament. Edited by Shelly Matthews and E. Leigh Gibson
Studies of biblical peace and violence have tended to place emphasis either on the peace-promoting core of the New Testament (sometimes at the expense of stressing the violence in the Hebrew Bible) or upon interpretative application of the biblical texts for the promotion of violence. The former has...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 260-263 |
| Review of: | Violence in the New Testament (New York, NY [u.a.] : T & T Clark, 2005) (Tite, Philip L.)
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| Summary: | Studies of biblical peace and violence have tended to place emphasis either on the peace-promoting core of the New Testament (sometimes at the expense of stressing the violence in the Hebrew Bible) or upon interpretative application of the biblical texts for the promotion of violence. The former has been a dominant discourse primarily among religiously motivated scholarship that sees the Bible as a solution to violence, especially within a post-colonial framework. With the latter, we are witnessing a scholarly discourse that is concerned with modern ethical concerns (e.g. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll100 |