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Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

How should we understand biblical texts where God is depicted as acting irrationally, violently, or destructively? If we distance ourselves from disturbing portrayals of God, how should we understand the authority of Scripture? How does the often wrathful God portrayed in the Old Testament relate to the God of love proclaimed in the New Testament? Is that contrast even accurate?Disturbing Divine...

him. The Levite’s host refuses but offers an alternative. The men can have his virgin daughter and the Levite’s concubine instead. Only the Levite’s concubine is sent out, and she experiences extreme violence at the hands of the men of Gibeah who sexually abuse her throughout the night. The next morning, the Levite finds his dead (?) concubine on the doorstep. He puts her on his donkey and heads for home. When he arrives, he cuts her body into twelve pieces and sends various parts of her dismembered
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