Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible by Matthew J. Lynch HARDBACK

Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible\nby Matthew J. Lynch\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Matthew J. Lynch\nTitle: Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781108494359\nISBN-10: 1108494358\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nMost studies on violence in the Hebrew Bible focus on the question of how modern readers should approach the problem. But they fail to ask how the Hebrew Bible thinks about that problem in the first place. In this work, Matthew J. Lynch examines four key ways that writers of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize and critique acts of violence: violence as an ecological problem; violence as a moral problem; violence as a.