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Matthew Lynch – Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible

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Do We Ever Associate Violence With Arrogant Speech?

Do people ever associate violence with arrogant speech, or am i'm trying tothink, dowe even necessarily think that arrogant speeche is a bad thing? I'm thinking of sports ire nou right nowyes. The bible even goes one step further, and would would say that speech itself is a kind of, can be a kind of violence. And we have that idea to day too. Verbal violence is not an unknown phenomenon. But, in some ways, the psalmist almost puts verbal violence, like, centr stage when thinking about the problem of enemies,. Even asking god to protect him from the tongue of the enemy. That's an really interesting way of framing things.

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