Sacred Scripture, Violent Verses: How Should We Read the Bible’s Texts of Terror?
The sacred scriptures we use contain lots of violence (just recently our Sunday lectionary texts have featured a number of beheadings and this Sunday 7/15 we hear Mark’s account of the death (by beheading) of John the Baptist).
Daniel Clendenin explores our sometimes uneasy relationship with scripture, especially these “texts of terror” a term first used by Phyllis Tickle to describe them. Go to Sacred Scripture, Violent Verses: How Should We Read the Bible’s Texts of Terror? This is the essay for the week on Journey with Jesus (a weekly E-zine I frequently visit; the archived material is wonderful, too). ~dan
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This is such an incredibly interesting article. I really struggle with how to talk about these texts with children but I LOVE the slant of the view from the victim’s perspective…. I think that’s “developmentally appropriate”—