The role of the Old Testament in a violent world
| dc.contributor.author | Meyer, Esias E. | |
| dc.contributor.email | sias.meyer@up.ac.za | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-01-30T07:01:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-01-30T07:01:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-11-11 | |
| dc.description | This article was initially read as a paper at a conference held at the Centre for Public Theology (University of Pretoria) on ‘Violence in the democratic South Africa: A challenge to theology and the churches’ on 11 August 2010. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This article explores the responsibility of Bible critics with regard to the role that the Bible should play in our violent society. The crucial question that needs to be addressed is whether the Bible, and especially the Old Testament, is part of the problem or part of the solution. The Old Testament is clearly a violent book. How do we deal with this? Does the Old Testament really have a positive contribution to make in a society riddled with violence? Some Bible critics tend to shy away from these questions, but there are exceptions. For some, violence is so endemic to the Bible that there is little to save. For others, the Bible has a very constructive role to play in a society plagued by violence. | en |
| dc.description.librarian | nf2012 | en |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.ve.org.za | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Meyer, E.E., 2011, ‘The role of the Old Testament in a violent world’, Verbum et Ecclesia 32(2), Art. #502, 8 pages. doi: 10.4102/ve.v32i2.502 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1609-9982 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.4102/ve.v32i2.502 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/17924 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | OpenJournals Publishing | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2011. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Violence in the Bible | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Bible -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Religion and social problems | en |
| dc.title | The role of the Old Testament in a violent world | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |