EXC 2060 C3-18 - Concepts of overcoming violence in the Hebrew Bible and its reception

Keywords: Religion; Politik; Überwindung; Gewalt; Altes Testament
Period: 2019 – 2025
Status: Finished
Funding Source: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Project Number: EXC 2060/1
Type of Funding: Unknwon Project Type

Description
Though the Old Testament includes some texts which speak of divine or human violence and were occasionally read to legitimize violence there, are also sections which contain approaches for the containment or even the overcoming of violence. Even today political impulses can emanate from these approaches. There are legal texts which sketch a society in which the causes for violence are diminished by solidarity and social justice. Many Psalms point out injustice and violence suffered but devolve the resistance to God. On the basis of a universalistic shape of monotheism ethnical antagonisms and hostilities can be abolished designing a world without political or religious conflicts. The project analyses those texts asking for their patterns of reasoning, literary links and historical and religious suppositions. They form the basis for investigations on the field of reception history. How were biblical texts read in Christianity to curtail interpersonal violence? There are e.g. spiritual readings of war narratives which reduce these texts to the struggle of virtues against vices or arguments deriving from biblical texts for the overcoming of hostility and war.
Persons
- Katharina Viktoria Fockenbrock, Mag. Theol.
  Department of Exegesis of the Old Testament
  Johannisstr. 8-10
  48143 Münster
  FB02 - Faculty of Catholic Theology (FB02)
  Johannisstr. 8-10
  48143 Münster
  Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
  Johannisstr. 1, room 010
  48143 Münster
  T: +49 251 83-23378
  katharina.fockenbrock@uni-muenster.de
- Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks
  Professorship of History of time and religion of the Old Testament (Prof. Schnocks)>
  Johannisstraße 8-10, room 216
  48143 Münster
  T: +49 251 83-25069
  j.schnocks@uni-muenster.de
  Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
  Johannisstr. 1
  48143 Münster
  Centre for Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture (GKM)
  Universitätsstr. 13-17
  48143 Münster
  Professorship of History of time and religion of the Old Testament (Prof. Schnocks)
  Johannisstr. 8-10, room 216
  48143 Münster
  T: +49 251 83-25069
  j.schnocks@uni-muenster.de

Dissertations

Katharina Fockenbrock
Doctoral AbstractThesis
Construction and deconstruction of the enemies as a strategy of overcoming violence in Ps 35-41
Supervisors
Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks
Professor Dr. Oliver Dyma
Doctoral Subject
Katholische Theologie
Targeted Doctoral Degree
Dr. theol.
Awarded by
Department 02 – Roman Catholic Theology

EXC 2060 C3-18 - Concepts of overcoming violence in the Hebrew Bible and its reception

Description

Persons

Dissertations

Doctoral AbstractThesis

Construction and deconstruction of the enemies as a strategy of overcoming violence in Ps 35-41