Download or read book Ce que dit la Bible sur la violence written by Philippe Abadie and published by Nouvelle Cité. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Que dit réellement la Bible sur la violence ? Celui qui ouvre la Bible pour la première fois ressent souvent l’impression pénible que ce texte sacré regorge de textes violents. Il est vrai que l’on peut comptabiliser pas moins de six cents passages violents dans l’Ancien Testament où l’on voit se détruire et s’exterminer des peuples, des rois et des individus...Refuser à la Bible tout rapport à la violence au nom d’une sainteté rêvée du texte, n’est-ce pas oublier que ce livre parle avant tout d’hommes réels avec leurs passions et leurs contradictions ? L’objectif de l’auteur, Philippe Abadie, n’est pas d’absoudre la Bible de toute violence, et encore moins de l’y enfermer mais de voir en quoi elle propose une réflexion sur la violence, opérant une sorte de catharsis qui permet à chacun de relire sa propre violence et propose des chemins de sortie. Un ouvrage riche d'enseignements pour mieux déchiffrer les textes bibliques. EXTRAIT La Bible serait-elle un texte violent ? La question n’a rien de futile, elle a même conduit Benoît XVI à proposer une brève réflexion sur ces « pages de la Bible qui se révèlent obscures et difficiles en raison de la violence et de l’immoralité qu’elles contiennent parfois » (§ 42) dans son exhortation Verbum Domini (30 septembre 2010). De fait, celui qui ouvre la Bible pour la première fois ressent l’impression pénible que ce texte sacré regorge de textes violents, qu’il s’agisse du fratricide de Caïn, des guerres menées par Josué, et même de Dieu jetant à la mer Pharaon et l’élite de son armée... CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE Ce livre est au cœur de l’actualité. D’une grande érudition et pédagogie, Philippe Abadie nous fait entrer dans les méandres de la Bible et répond avec clarté à nos questions les plus difficiles sur la violence dans la Bible. - Fleuriège, sur le site des Éditions Nouvelle Cité Excellent livre traitant de la manière dont il nous faut comprendre la violence dans la Bible, au-delà de la lecture au premier degré. Facile à lire et à comprendre ! - Philippe Mellet, sur le site des Éditions Nouvelle Cité À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Philippe Abadie est professeur à la faculté de théologie de l’université catholique de Lyon, docteur en histoire des religions, anthropologie religieuse et science théologique, élève titulaire de l’École Biblique et Archéologique française de Jérusalem. À PROPOS DE LA COLLECTION Chaque année, 30 millions de bibles sont vendues dans le monde, dans plus de 2 000 langues et dialectes. Mais combien sont ouvertes et lues ? La Bible est un trésor souvent difficile d’accès. Et pourtant elle recèle des pépites de sagesse, des paroles de vie. Comment y accéder avec justesse et finesse si ce n’est en prenant pour guide un expert des textes bibliques, un exégète, amoureux de la Parole de Dieu ? C’est ce que propose cette nouvelle collection intitulée : Ce que dit la Bible sur.... Son approche est originale : une lecture transversale de la Bible. Douze chapitres d’un petit livre, des entretiens faciles à lire et riches d’enseignements.

Download or read book The Bible Violence and the Sacred written by James G. Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive application to the whole Bible of RenŽ Girard's theories on violence, civilization, and religion.

Download or read book Encountering Violence in the Bible written by Markus Zehnder and published by Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is full of violence, with repeated acts of terrorism and generally rising rates of violent criminal acts as the most obvious forms of the phenomenon in the Western world. It even reached the peaceful shores of Norway in the summer of 2011. This was one of the reasons why the first international meeting of the Norwegian Summer Academy for Biblical Studies was devoted to the topic 'Violence as an Ethical Challenge in the Bible'. Eighteen biblical scholars from nine different countries (Joshua Berman, Lennart Bostrom, Friedmann Eissler, Torleif Elgvin, LarsOlov Eriksson, Karin Finsterbusch, Georg Fischer, Terence E. Fretheim, Hallvard Hagelia, Dana M. Harris, Robert L. Hubbard, Jr, Arstein Justnes, Gordon McConville, Kirsten Nielsen, Tommy Wasserman, Karl William Weyde, Peter Wick and Markus Zehnder) met on the beautiful premises of Ansgar Theological Seminary to discuss some of the most fundamental aspects of the topic. The papers presented at the conference are collected in the present volume, dealing mostly with the Hebrew Bible, but covering also the New Testament, Jewish literature from the Second Temple period and the Qur'an. The contributions reflect a refreshing variety of scholarly and theological approaches. One of the fundamental questions addressed in several studies is how biblical texts justifying violence can be properly understood and used today. Other questions raised are how violent some of the often-criticized biblical passages really are and how violence can be overcome.

Download or read book The Bible on Violence written by Helen Paynter and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Must There be Scapegoats written by Raymund Schwager and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Schwager reverses three millennia of conventional understanding of the Bible as he argues that the God of the Old Testament is not a God of violence; that Jesus sacrifice is not an act of appeasement of the Father; and that the suffering and death of an infinite victim is not compensation for an infinite offence against God."-- Back cover.

Download or read book La guerre et la violence dans la Bible written by Anton van der Lingen and published by Editions du Cerf. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Bible appelle-t-elle à la violence ? Incite-t-elle au conflit ? Légitime-t-elle la force afin de déculpabiliser son usage ? Ces questions sont d'une brulante actualité. Elles ont donné lieu à des bibliothèques de théories et d'interprétations. Anton van der Lingen, lui, entend revenir au coeur des Écritures pour en déceler le message originel. Il revisite les thèmes fondamentaux que sont la paix, l'étranger, l'ennemi, la bataille et la guerre sainte. Il recense les récits militaires de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, en livre les contextes, en décrypte le sens ultime. Cette étude d'une salutaire archéologie est des plus contemporaines. Elle montre de manière décisive comment le Dieu des Armées se révèle comme le Dieu désarmé.

Download or read book Coping with Violence in the New Testament written by Pieter de Villiers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence is present in the very heart of religion and its sacred traditions – also of Christianity and the Bible. The problem, however, is not only that violence is ingrained in the mere existence of religions with their sacred traditions. It is equally problematic to realise that the icy grip of violence on the sacred has gone unnoticed and unchallenged for a very long time. The present publication aims to contribute to the recent scholarly debate about the interconnections between violence and monotheistic religions by analysing the role of violence in the New Testament as well as by offering some hermeneutical perspectives on violence as it is articulated in the earliest Christian writings. Contributors include: Andries G. van Aarde, Paul Decock, Pieter G.R. de Villiers, Ernest van Eck, Jan Willem van Henten, Rob van Houwelingen, Kobus Kok, Tobias Nicklas, Jeremy Punt, Jan G. van der Watt, and Wim Weren.

Download or read book A Cry Instead of Justice written by Dereck Daschke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Does the Bible Justify Violence written by John Joseph Collins and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this clarifying essay, renowned biblical scholar John Collins delves into the lethal side of the biblical text, asking whether the Bible endorses or even foments violence and how its many violent texts may best be understood in today's volatile religious and political context. This work is based on his Presidential Address to the Society of Biblical Literature.

Download or read book Violence in the Hebrew Bible written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Violence in the Hebrew Bible scholars reflect on texts of violence in the Hebrew Bible, as well as their often problematic reception history. Authoritative texts and traditions can be rewritten and adapted to new circumstances and insights. Texts are subject to a process of change. The study of the ways in which these (authoritative) biblical texts are produced and/or received in various socio-historical circumstances discloses a range of theological and ideological perspectives. In reflecting on these issues, the central question is how to allow for a given text’s plurality of possible and realised meanings while also retaining the ability to form critical judgments regarding biblical exegesis. This volume highlight that violence in particular is a fruitful area to explore this tension.

Download or read book La Violencia and the Hebrew Bible written by Susanne Scholz and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exegetically noteworthy and culturally-theologically relevant Violence in its wide range of horrifying expressions is real in people’s lives, and biblical interpreters must take violence in the world seriously to arrive at relevant ideas about the place of the Bible in the world. Each essay addresses people’s experiences of violence in the study of the Bible through the context of la violencia, the Spanish noun referring to the brutal, repressive, and murderous policies of state-sponsored violence practiced in many South and Central American and Caribbean countries during the twentieth century that external powers such as the USA often endorsed and fostered. The volume represents an important contribution to biblical studies and to the field of Latina/o studies. The contributors are Cheryl B. Anderson, Pablo Andiñach, Nancy Bedford, Lee Cuéllar, Steed V. Davidson, Serge Frolov, Renata Furst, Julia M. O’Brien, Todd Penner, José Enrique Ramírez, Ivoni Richter Reimer, and Susanne Scholz. Features: Twelve essays by scholars living and working on the American continent Articles reveal the complex historical, political, and cultural conditions on the American continent that have contributed to our understanding of violence in the Bible Focus on themes of racial, social, and cultural violence

Download or read book Violence in Scripture written by Jerome F.D. Creach and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible frequently depicts God as angry and violent, and sometimes depicts human violence as positive or even as commanded by God. This forms one of the most vexing problems in approaching Scripture and interpreting the Bible for preaching and teaching today. In this volume, Creach first examines the theological problems of violence and categorizes the types of violence that appear in scripture. He then wrestles with the most important biblical texts on violence to work through specific interpretational issues. This new volume in the Interpretation: Resources for Use of Scripture in the Church series will help preachers and pastors interpret those difficult texts, encouraging them to face violence in the Bible with honesty.

Download or read book War in the Hebrew Bible written by Susan Niditch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texts about war pervade the Hebrew Bible, raising challenging questions in religious and political ethics. The war passages that readers find most disquieting are those in which God demands the total annihilation of the enemy without regard to gender, age, or military status. The ideology of the "ban," however, is only one among a range of attitudes towards war preserved in the ancient Israelite literary tradition. Applying insights from anthropology, comparative literature, and feminist studies, Niditch considers a wide spectrum of war ideologies in the Hebrew Bible, seeking in each case to discover why and how these views might have made sense to biblical writers, who themselves can be seen to wrestle with the ethics of violence. The study of war thus also illuminates the social and cultural history of Israel, as war texts are found to map the world views of biblical writers from various periods and settings. Reviewing ways in which modern scholars have interpreted this controversial material, Niditch sheds further light on the normative assumptions that shape our understanding of ancient Israel. More widely, this work explores how human beings attempt to justify killing and violence while concentrating on the tones, textures, meanings, and messages of a particular corpus in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Download or read book The Violence of the Biblical God written by L. Daniel Hawk and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we make sense of violence in the Bible? Joshua commands the people of Israel to wipe out everyone in the promised land of Canaan, while Jesus commands God’s people to love their enemies. How are we to interpret biblical passages on violence when it is sanctioned at one point and condemned at another? The Violence of the Biblical God by L. Daniel Hawk presents a new framework, solidly rooted in the authority of Scripture, for understanding the paradox of God’s participation in violence. Hawk shows how the historical narrative of the Bible offers multiple canonical pictures for faithful Christian engagement with the violent systems of the world.

Download or read book Bible Caught in Violence written by Cezary Korzec and published by European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence in the Bible of texts about violence and pointing to God as its direct agent raises many doubts in the contemporary reader. A closer study of biblical texts and presentation of the immediate historical context point that the Bible or any part of it cannot be a pretext for any kind of aggression.

Download or read book La Bible ou la violence surmont e written by André Wénin and published by Desclée De Brouwer. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pourquoi une telle violence dans la Bible, tant d'êtres brutaux au fil de ses pages ? Pourquoi souvent son Dieu ne cède-t-il en rien aux hommes sur ce plan ? La présence massive de la violence, en particulier dans le premier Testament, dérange en effet. A cause d'elle, d'aucuns voudraient que les croyants renvoient ce livre aux oubliettes de l'Histoire, comme un sombre témoignage du potentiel destructeur que constitue toute religion. Et des chrétiens préfèrent ignorer des pans entiers de ce livre, pourtant au centre de leur foi, indispensable pour saisir le message du Nouveau Testament. Bibliste de renom, André Wénin répond à cette critique : tout le paradoxe de la sagesse de la Bible est justement d'indiquer à l'humanité des impasses à éviter, en premier lieu la violence. Pour cela, il lui faut cultiver la justice et, lorsque celle-ci connaît des dérives, aller plus loin, vers la fraternité, la sagesse véritable. Car le Dieu de la Bible ne veut pas le malheur de l'homme, mais sa vie et son épanouissement.

Download or read book Ce que la Bible dit sur la violence written by Philippe Abadie and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celui qui ouvre la Bible pour la première fois ressent souvent l’impression pénible que ce texte sacré regorge de textes violents. Il est vrai que l’on peut comptabiliser pas moins de six cents passages violents dans l’Ancien Testament où l’on voit se détruire et s’exterminer des peuples, des rois et des individus... Refuser à la Bible tout rapport à la violence au nom d’une sainteté rêvée du texte, n’est-ce pas oublier que ce livre parle avant tout des hommes réels, avec leurs passions et leurs contradictions ? L’objectif de l’auteur n’est pas d’absoudre la Bible de toute violence, et encore moins de l’y enfermer mais de voir en quoi elle propose une réflexion sur la violence, opérant une sorte de catharsis qui permet à chacun de lire sa propre violence et propose des chemins de sortie.