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Matthew Lynch – Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible

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The Grammar of Violence in the Hebrew Bible

The book is called portraying violence, but i think of it as the grammar of violence. And you actually talk about four grammars um in the hebrew bible,. You talk aobout ecological, moral speech, judicial grammar and purity. I think most people will be caught off gard. Ah, that those are the fourgrammars of violence in the he Hebrew bible. Why these four? And why not, you know, conquest, genicide, god's wrath, i think, would be one of the grammars that people would have expected.

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