Matthew J LynchPortraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible
A Literary and Cultural Study
Matthew J. Lynch is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Regent College in Vancouver, and until 2020, was Academic Dean at Westminster Theological Centre, UK. He is the author of Monotheism and Institutions in the Book of Chronicles: Temple, Priesthood, and Kingship in Post-Exilic Perspective (2014). He is a founding co-host of the OnScript podcast.
Introduction
Part I. Violence and Ecology: 1. A brother's blood on the land
2. The cosmic ecology of violence
3. Covenant and the restraint of violence in creation
Part II. Violence and Moral Speech: 4. Violent deceitfulness in the scheming heart
5. The violence of arrogant speech
Part III. Violence and Justice: 6. The outcry of violence
7. Judicial responses to violence
8. Violence and the divine avenger
Part IV. Violence and Impurity: 9. Violence and the problem of impurity: key texts
10. The rhetoric of violence and impurity
Conclusion
Appendix. Biblical terms for violence.
