Texts of Terror

by Phyllis Trible

Author	: Phyllis Trible
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 128
Release	: 2002
Genre	: Bible
ISBN	: 9780334029007

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In this book, Phyllis Trible examines four Old Testament narratives of suffering in ancient Israel: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed concubine and the daughter of Jephthah. These stories are for Trible the "substance of life", which may imspire new beginnings and by interpreting these stories of outrage and suffering on behalf of their female victims, the author recalls a past that is all to embodied in the present, and prays that these terrors shall not come to pass again. "Texts of Terror" is perhaps Trible's most readable book, that brings biblical scholarship within the grasp of the non-specialist. These "sad stories" about women in the Old Testament prompt much refelction on contemporary misuse of the Bible, and therefore have considerable relevance today.

Texts After Terror

by Rhiannon Graybill

Author	: Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 251
Release	: 2021
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 0190082313

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"It is widely recognized that the Hebrew Bible is filled with rape and sexual violence. However, feminist approaches to the topic remain dominated by Phyllis Trible's 1984 Texts of Terror, which describes feminist criticism as a practice of "telling sad stories." Pushing beyond Trible, Texts after Terror offers a new framework for reading biblical sexual violence, one that draws on recent work in feminist, queer, and affect theory and activism against sexual violence and rape culture. In the Hebrew Bible as in the contemporary world, sexual violence is frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky. Fuzzy names the ambiguity and confusion that often surround experiences of sexual violence. Messy identifies the consequences of rape, while also describing messy sex and bodies. Icky points out the ways that sexual violence fails to fit into neat patterns of evil perpetrators and innocent victims. Building on these concepts, Texts after Terror offers a number of new feminist strategies and approaches to sexual violence: critiquing the framework of consent, offering new models of sexual harm, emphasizing the importance of relationships between women (even in the context of stories of heterosexual rape), reading biblical rape texts with and through contemporary texts written by survivors, advocating for "unhappy reading" that makes unhappiness and open-endedness into key feminist sites of possibility. Texts after Terror also discusses a wide range of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 43), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Lot's daughters (Gen. 19), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16 and 21), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1 and 2), and the Levite's concubine (Judg. 19)"--

God's War on Terror

by Walid Shoebat

Author	: Walid Shoebat
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2008
Genre	: Islam and politics
ISBN	: 9780977102181

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Proposes that the Middle East and the Islamic faith--rather than Europe and Christianity--will initiate the End of Times, discussing the connections between the Bible, current world events, the Koran, and the Antichrist.

Holy Horror

by Steve A. Wiggins

Author	: Steve A. Wiggins
Publisher	: McFarland
Total Pages	: 216
Release	: 2018-12-03
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 1476633711

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What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.

Terror in the Bible

by Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon

Author	: Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 262
Release	: 2021-12-10
Genre	:
ISBN	: 9781628374216

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Texts of Terror (40th Anniversary Edition)

by Phyllis Trible

Author	: Phyllis Trible
Publisher	: Fortress Press
Total Pages	: 155
Release	: 2022-04-05
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1506481396

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In this seminal work of biblical studies, renowned scholar Phyllis Trible focuses on four variations on the theme of terror in the Bible. By combining the discipline of literary criticism with the hermeneutics of feminism, she reinterprets the tragic stories of four women in ancient Israel: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed concubine, and the daughter of Jephthah. In highlighting the silence, absence, and opposition of God, as well as human cruelty, Trible shows how these neglected stories--interpreted in memoriam--challenge both the misogyny of Scripture and its use in church, synagogue, and academy.

She Nailed a Stake Through His Head

by Catherynne M. Valente

Author	: Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 143
Release	: 2010
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 9780976654674

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Meandering between desert sands and skyscrapers, between past, present, and alternate timelines, "She Nailed a Stake Through His Head" is a gallery of horrors inspired by the most nightmarish images of Near Eastern cultures.

Psalm 91

by Peggy Joyce Ruth

Author	: Peggy Joyce Ruth
Publisher	: Impact Christian Books
Total Pages	: 184
Release	: 2017-10-21
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 9781942757047

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Find Protection From Your Greatest Fears. Do the latest statistics on cancer, heart disease, or other life-threatening illnesses send a chill down your spine? Do thoughts of terrorist attacks and chemical warfare cause your heart to skip a beat? What about natural disasters that are striking in unexpected places? Do you sometimes wonder if there is any safe place in the world to hide? In the midst of these turbulent times, God has anointed Peggy Joyce Ruth to write this book as an encouragement to His Church to overcome fear, worry and doubt. This book can be one of the most important messages you will ever read!

The Holiness of God

by R.C. Sproul

Author	: R.C. Sproul
Publisher	: NavPress
Total Pages	: 239
Release	: 2023-09-05
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1496437217

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Central to God’s character is the quality of holiness. Yet, even so, most people are hard-pressed to define what God’s holiness precisely is. Many preachers today avoid the topic altogether because people today don’t quite know what to do with words like “awe” or “fear.” R. C. Sproul, in this classic work, puts the holiness of God in its proper and central place in the Christian life. He paints an awe-inspiring vision of God that encourages Christian to become holy just as God is holy. Once you encounter the holiness of God, your life will never be the same.