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You Shall Not Kill or You Shall Not Murder?: The Assault on a Biblical Text

You Shall Not Kill or You Shall Not Murder?: The Assault on a Biblical Text

Bailey, Wilma Ann

Paperback

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 081465214X
ISBN13: 9780814652145
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: Aug 1 2005
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

Nearly all English translations of the Bible during the last third of the twentieth century have changed the wording of the sixth commandment from kill to murder. The Hebrew word that appears in the commandment has a broader semantic range than murder. Wilma Ann Bailey discusses why the Protestant and Jewish traditions changed the wording and why the Roman Catholic tradition did not. She also examines the impact that the wording will have in the future for people who believe that there is no general prohibition against killing in the Hebrew Bible and why questions of killing that are broader than murder 'death penalty and just war 'are no longer part of the discussion of this commandment.

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