On this page you can find photographs and recordings from the CSBV Inaugural Symposium held on 17th June 2019.
Keynote addresses
Keynote address by Professor James Crossley.
‘The English Radical Bible and Revolutionary Violence: The Case of John Ball and the Peasants’ Revolt’
Keynote address by Helen Paynter.
Towards a ‘thick description’ of biblical violence
Student prize: shortlisted papers
Brandon Hurlbert.
Taking the Absurdity Seriously: Questioning the Complicity of YHWH in Judges 20-21
Audio
Trevor Laurence.
Violent prayers of love: an ethical (re)assessment of the imprecatory psalms
Audio
William Moore.
Militance, Motherhood, and Masculinisation: How is gender constructed in Judges 4 & 5?
Audio
Michael Spalione.
Military Violence and The Ministry of Reconciliation: The Hermeneutics of Covenants and Vocations
Audio
Academic papers
Deborah Kahn Harris.
Between the Song of Songs and Lamentations: Violence in the Divine-Human Relationship
Kofi Amissah.
‘Because they store up violence and oppression in their citadels… I will kill them with the sword’: Human violence as the tool for perpetrating social injustice and divine violence as punishment for social injustice in the prophecy of Amos
Matt Rowley.
‘On the Impossibility of Imitating Biblical Violence’
Daniël Drost.
A Nonviolent Reading of Violent Texts. An Introduction into Three Recent Anabaptist Approaches.
Tim Davy.
A Missional Reading of Psalm 10 with Special Reference to the Exploitation of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Caught Up in the Refugee Crisis in Europe
Audio
John Baxter-Brown.
A Biblical and Theological Basis for Ending Violence Against Children
Audio
Maria Power.
The Good Samaritan and overcoming ‘othering’: dialogue-based approaches from Northern Ireland
Maria was ill and her paper was read by someone else in her absence. Audio
Valerie Hobbs.
Rape Culture in Sermons on Divorce
Audio
Jayme Reaves.
‘When Did We See You Naked?’: Why Naming Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse Matters
Steve Carter.
A charter for domestic violence? The subordination of slaves and wives in 1 Peter
We regret that there is no audio recording for this paper
Peter Hatton.
The Good Empire?: The Puzzling Endorsement of Achaemenid Rule in the Old Testament.
We regret that there is no audio recording for this paper
Stephen Finamore.
First things first: Who is the Rider of Revelation 6.2?
Matt Lynch.
An Old Testament Critique of Modern Violence
Student papers
Margaret Blakey.
Redeeming Peninnah: Power Dynamics, Privilege and Victimhood in 1 Samuel 1 and 2.
Charlotte Trombin.
The Midrash of Lilith: A Christian Adoption of Jewish Feminist Hermeneutical Response to Violence in Women’s Narrative
Audio
Monica Jones.
The Forgotten Element: A response to readings of sexual violence in the Bible.
Will Robinson.
The Death Penalty in Mark 7:10.
We regret that there is no audio recording for this paper
Charlotte Moore.
You can pull people out of the fire but why did it start in the first place? Locating Grenfell between the Powers and the Cross.
We regret that there is no audio recording for this paper
Hannah Capey.
‘Re-examining Incest in the Hebrew Bible’
Joe Hayward.
Silent Sufferin’: Hearing Achan Through the Crucified Victim
