Brilliant article from Derek Flood a couple of years ago. These themes are very much fleshed out in Dereks upcoming book Disarming Scripture: IT WOULD BE possible from all of this to get the impression that there are two conflicting narratives: the New Testament, which has a message of love, and the Old Testament, which promotes violence in God’s name. That conclusion is, however, far too simplistic. Of course, we do find texts in the Hebrew Bible that promote violence, but we also find those that promote mercy and compassion toward foreigners. Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann refers to these competing narratives as different “witnesses” in a court—each claiming to be the correct view, each claiming authority.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:42:52 +0000
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