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Revenge
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[German Version]
I. Concept Revenge as a form of compensation provides a model for social behavior. Religions interpret it and extend the concept to relationships between human beings and gods as well as between the living and the dead. Religions vary in their assessment of revenge. They can consider it a legitimate form of justice (talion in tribal societies, the notion of revenge in the OT, as in Gen 4:23f.) or as an unethical mode of conduct to be overcome (Buddhism; Matt 6:12). Usually revenge is a peripheral aspect of religion and theology; in the theoretical debates of religious studies, it is usually treated as a subsidiary aspect of other topics such as ethics, with questions of tolerance and intolerance, killing, and w…
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Religion Past and Present
Ruth, Book of
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[German Version]
I. Content and Structure The book of Ruth begins with a situation typical of Israel’s historical memory. Like Abraham and Sarah (cf. Gen 12:10–20) and the whole tribe of Jacob (cf. Gen 46–47), in the midst of a famine a family leaves its home in Bethlehem to seek survival in the land of Moab. But Moab proves a deathtrap: first Elimelech dies, then his two sons, who after their father’s death had married the Moabite women Orpah and Ruth. The …
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Religion Past and Present
