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The blood of Abel: the violent plot in the Hebrew Bible

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Violence in the Bible has received a tremendous amount of attention in recent years. What has been lacking in many such studies is the kind of sustained exegesis of biblical texts that allows the Bible itself to set the agenda. This book begins with biblical texts and stays with them long enough to hear what they have to say, rather than using a collection of texts to support an argument. Part 1 traces the biblical story of Israel, focusing on tests at the turning points of the narrative. Violence enters the human community in the story of Cain and Abel. The thread of violence then runs through the entire biblical narrative. It appears prominently in texts where the status of Israel changes from free persons to slaves, to wanderers, to land-owning tribes, to citizens of a monarchy, to citizens of two monarchies, to exiles.

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221.83 MCE b

Z. HANDIMAN

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221.83 MCE b

Publisher

Macon : Mercer University Press., 1999

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181p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

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0-86554-629-0

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221.83

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OLD TESTAMENT - VIOLENCE

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