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Biblical Violence and the Virtues of a (Very) Plain Sense
Biblical Violence and the Virtues of a (Very) Plain Sense
at Confronted by ethically troubling texts and themes in the Hebrew Bible, modern and contemporary Jewish commentators have developed an array of strategies for addressing and “repairing” the plain meaning of such passages. This talk argues that these reparative attempts have their own consequences, drawing out the ethical, political, and philosophical virtues of a renewed […]