1. Introduction: scripture and violence – is there a bomb in this text?
Julia Snyder
2. Reading and debating the Qur’an with ISIS
Omar Shaukat
3. "And God said": do biblical commands to conquer land make people more violent, or less?
Daniel H. Weiss
4. Invoking the Qurʾan in a Muslim debate over suicide attacks
Sara Omar
5. Texts and violence in modern Israel: interpreting Pinchas
Laliv Clenman
6. Why saying "only some Muslims are violent" is no better than saying "all Muslims are violent"
Nauman Faizi
7. Left behind? The New Testament and American evangelical Christian support for war
Jacob L. Goodson
8. "There never was and never will be": violence and interpretive erasure in the Jewish tradition
Laurie Zoloth
9. Reading scripture reverentially but not univocally: why words in themselves are not dangerous
Jim Fodor
10. Wrestling with scripture and avoiding violence in the university classroom
Marianne Moyaert
Biography
Julia Snyder is Research Associate in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.
