Must There be Scapegoats?: Violence and Redemption in the Bible

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Gracewing Publishing, 2000 - 243 pages
"Schwager reverses three millennia of conventional understanding of the Bible as he argues that the God of the Old Testament is not a God of violence; that Jesus sacrifice is not an act of appeasement of the Father; and that the suffering and death of an infinite victim is not compensation for an infinite offence against God."-- Back cover.

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Contents

From the God of Vengeance
43
The Violent Yahweh
53
Rivalry and Jealousy
71
The Projection of Sacred Ideas
81
The Horde of the Violent
91
The Revelation of the True God and
109
B The New Gathering
117
The Suffering Servant
126
Jesus as Scapegoat
136
The Holy Spirit
220
Perspectives
228
Notes
235
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