Journal for Semitics

Diese Bücher sind Band vier und fünf der neuen Serie Biblische Gestalten bei den Kirchenvätern, die sich dem patristischen Verständnis biblischer Gestalten widmet. Der erste Band zu Abraham war 2005 erschienen (2. Aufl. 2009), der zweite Band zu Samuel im Jahr 2009 und der dritte Band zu Mose im Jahr 2010. Ziel der Reihe ist es „die Art und Weise, wie die großen Theologen der frühen Christenheit die Bibel lasen, vorzustellen und so zu einer geistlichen Schriftauslegung in unserer Zeit Anregungen zu geben“ (6).

Biblical studies have become a broad and variegated field. While the Bible is still being widely read and interpreted in the church and in various other theological quests, the Bible and its interpretation and theology as a discipline, as a whole, have also increasingly become the domain of cultural studies and employed its methods and insights.

While the relationship between religion and violence is not a new issue, for a number of reasons it has come to the forefront in recent years. The origins, and at times disastrous consequences, of this relationship are no longer a narrowly defined academic question but widely discussed in society. Often the focus has been on one or several religious traditions readily and commonly associated with the use of violence.