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200 10$aImmoral Bible $eapproaches to Biblical ethics /$fEryl W. Davies
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aLondon ;$aNew York, N.Y. $cT&T Clarck$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (183 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aTable of Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Immoral Bible; Chapter 2 The Evolutionary Approach; Chapter 3 The Cultural Relativists' Approach; Chapter 4 Canonical Approaches; Chapter 5 The Paradigmatic Approach; Chapter 6 The Reader-response Approach; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Subjects; Index of Modern Authors
330   $a  In this work Eryl W. Davies sums up a career's worth of in-depth reflection on the thorny issue of biblical ethics examining the bible's, at times problematic, stance upon slavery, polygamy and perhaps its most troublesome aspect, the sanctioning of violence and warfare. This is most pertinent in respect to Joshua 6-11 a text which lauds the 'holy war' of the Israelites, anihiliting the native inhabitants of Canaan, and a text which has been used to legitimise the actions of white colonists in North America, the Boers in South Africa and right-wing Zionists in modern Israel. Davies begins wi
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