Laying Down the Sword
Subtitle: why we can't ignore the Bible's violent verses
Publisher: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780061990717
Description: Philip Jenkins identifies the "holy amnesia" that, while allowing scriptural religions to grow and adapt, has demanded a nearly wholesale suppression of the Bible's most aggressive passages, leaving them dangerously dormant for extremists to revive in times of conflict. Jenkins lays bare the whole Bible, without compromise or apology, and equips us with tools for reading even the most unsettling texts, from the slaughter of the Canaanites to the alarming rhetoric of the book of Revelation. --from publisher description
Table of contents: title: Definitions; title: Introduction : Motes and beams; title: Part one : Scripture as problem.; title: Everything that breathes; title: Truth and history; title: Words of the sword; title: Part two : The inheritance.; title: Sons of Joshua; title: Warrant for genocide; title: Amalekite nightmares; title: Part three : Truth and reconciliation.; title: Judging God; title: Coming to terms; title: Historians and prophets; title: Preaching the unpreachable; title: Scripture alone?