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A Cry Instead of Justice: The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological Perspective
Contributor(s): Daschke, Dereck (Editor), Kille, Andrew (Editor)
ISBN: 0567501051     ISBN-13: 9780567501059
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
OUR PRICE:   $51.43  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General
- Religion | Psychology Of Religion
Dewey: 220.830
Series: Library Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.68 lbs) 224 pages
 
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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 of

Contributor Bio(s): Mein, Andrew: -

Andrew Mein is Tutor in Old Testament, Westcott House, Cambridge.

Camp, Claudia V.: - Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.Daschke, Dereck: - Dereck Daschke is an Associate Professor of Philosophy
and Religion at Truman State University and the chair of the Psychology and
Biblical Studies Section of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting.

Kille, Andrew: - D. Andrew Kille, Ph.D., is director of Interfaith Space in San Jose, California. He is an Associate Editor of The Bible Workbench, and former chair of the Psychology and Biblical Studies Section of the SBL. He has written extensively in psychological biblical criticism; his latest book, edited with Wayne G. Rollins, is Psychological Insight into the Bible: Texts and Readings (Eerdmans, 2007).