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Matthew Lynch – Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible

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OnScript

Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8666 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Dru Johnson discusses Matt's recent book Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible. Matt discusses ways that the Old Testament depicts the problem of violence, some of the surprising ways that biblical writers portray violence, and ways that the Old Testament challenges modern ideas about violence. Also listen to Matt fail miserably in the speed round. The post Matthew Lynch – Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible first appeared on OnScript.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Onscript podcast, your home for world-class conversations on scripture and theology,

0:08.0

where you get to meet some of the best in the field.

0:10.4

Visit us at OnScript. Study.

0:12.6

Say hello on Twitter at OnScript Podcast and stop by our Facebook page at facebook.com slash unscript.

0:20.0

Hey, everyone.

0:20.9

Welcome back to the OnScript podcast.

0:22.5

This is Matt Lynch coming to you from Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.

0:26.7

I'm a co-host along with Matt Bates, Drew Johnson, Aaronheim, Chris Tilling, Amy Brown

0:31.0

Hughes, and Jules Martinez-Olivieri.

0:33.4

We are a collective that is working to explore biblical studies and theology in the bridges between them.

0:42.0

And in this episode, Drew is going to be interviewing me about my book portraying violence,

0:47.1

which was published last year with Cambridge University Press.

0:50.7

And I promise I didn't force Drew to do this because I interviewed him about his book.

0:55.5

So he asked and I obliged.

0:58.1

And I'm looking forward to you hearing about the work I've been doing on violence in the Old Testament.

1:04.8

And I'm actually working right now on another book for IBP Academic on wrestling with violence in the Bible, so which is you'll hear from

1:13.0

this interview.

1:13.8

It's a different angle than I take in the book that I'll be talking about in this episode.

1:19.6

Thanks so much for listening.

1:21.1

And thanks to Ed Hacky for producing the show, to Rebecca Targune for all her help with marketing

1:26.7

and media.

1:28.2

By the way, there's a newsletter you can sign up to on our websites, I think.

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