Keeping in mind the definition of the Bible and the Koran as God’s will and God’s Word, read the selected texts and identify what is problematic in them.? What is the attitude of these texts vis-à-vis violence? Do you believe that all this is the Word of God? Why?

Would you be happy to worship a God who commands the kind of things you find in these texts?

A. BIBLICAL TEXTS :

I.

1) Exodus 20: 1-6, and Exodus 23:13

2) Deut.13: 1-17 and Exodus 22:19;

3) Deut 32: 1-35

4) Genesis 11:31-32; and 12:1-2

5) Deuteronomy 26:5-10; 6:1-25; 7:1-8; Deut 8:1-20; Deut 9: 1-7; and Deut. 17: 1-5

6) 1 Samuel 14:47-52 and 15:1-35

7) Leviticus 20:1-27

8) *Leviticus 25, 39-46*

9) Nehemiah 13:23-31 and Ezra, chap. 9 and 10

10) Leviticus 21:9-24

II.

1) Deuteronomy, chapters 6, 7, and 8

2) Deuteronomy 27: 9-26;

3) Leviticus 20

4) Isaiah 60:11-12

5) Judges, chapters 5, 7, and 11

6) Exodus 21:22-25 (Lex Talionis)

7) Exodus chapters 7 to 12

8) Numbers, chapters 13-15;

9) Numbers 33:50-55

10) 1 Samuel 14:47-52; and 15:1-35

III

1) * Psalm 109*

2) *Psalms 136 *

3) Psalms 35

4) Psalms135;

5) Psalms 139;

6) Psalms 68;

7) Psalms 94;

8) Psalms 58

9) Psalms 59

10) Exodus 15:1-26

IV.

1) **Rom 13, 1-7**

2) 1 Timothy 2, 1-6

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3) 1 Peter 2, 13-20

4) Titus 3, 1-3

V.

1) Leviticus 21:9; and Deut 22: 13-22

2) Deut 25: 5-12

3) Lev 12: 1-8; and Lev 15: 19-31

4) 1 Cor 11: 1-6

5) 1 Tim 2: 1-14

6) Ephesians 5:22-33

7) Lev 20 8) 1 Kings 11: 1-7

9) Genesis, chapters 29 and 30

10) Nehemiah 13: 23-31 and Ezra, chapters 9 and 10

VI.

1) *Leviticus 25, 39-46*

2) Ephesians 6, 5-8

3) Colossians 3, 22-25

4) 1 Timothy 6, 1-6 5) Titus 2, 9-10

6) 1 Peter 2, 13-20

7) Exodus chapter 21 (“Rights of Slaves”?)

8) Genesis chap. 9 and 10: Divine curse?

?B. THE KORAN

Surahs: ?2; 4; 5; 9

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