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Matthew Lynch – Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible

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What Does It Have to Do With Violence?

There's a long word play on dirt or ground there that's going all the way up through the end of the flood narrative. So wy would the ground get involved? I think that's the question that has to be put forwardye. It makes sense why humans might get involved and try to stop somebody in some immoral action or violence. But why would the dirt itself get involved? Yes. And that's kind of what i want to, want to get at with like how the bible is conceptializing it like that.

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