British Baptist Biblical Scholars 12: Helen Paynter

Director, Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, Bristol Baptist College

 

Publications

___ Reduced Laughter: Seriocomic Features and their Functions in the Book of Kings (Brill, 2016)

___ 'Ahab: Heedless Father, Sullen Son: Humour and Intertextuality in 1 Kings 21', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 2017 vol. 41(4): 451-474.

___ Immigration and the Church: Reflecting faithfully in our generation (Grove, 2017)

___ ‘Revenge for my Two Eyes’: Talion and Mimesis in the Samson narrative', Biblical Interpretation, 2018 vol. 26: 133-157.

___ 'Participation and goal: Creation and the church’ in Rhythms of Faithfulness: Essays in Honor of John Colwell edited by Andy Goodliff and Paul Goodliff (Pickwick, 2018)

___ ‘Make yourself at home’: Tensions and Paradoxes of hospitality in dialogue with the Bible', Bible and Critical Theory, 2018 vol 14(1):42-61.

___ Dead and Buried: Attending to the voice of the victim in the Old Testament and today: Towards an ethical reading of the Old Testament texts of violence. Oxford: Regents Park College, Whitley Publications, 2018

___ The Strange World of Elijah and Elisha (Grove, 2019)

___ God of violence yesterday, God of love today? Wrestling honestly with the Old Testament. BRF, 2019.

___ 'The Gadarene swine and the conquest of Jericho: an intertextual reading',Pacific Journal of Theological Research, 2019 vol. 14(2): 13-24.

___ 'Porous Borders and Textual Ambiguity: Why ancient Israel is no model for modern nationalism', Journal of European Baptist Studies, 2020 vol.20(1): 117-130.

___ The Bible Doesn’t Tell Me So: Why you don’t have to submit to domestic abuse and coercive control. BRF, 2020

___ 'Towards a Thick Description of Biblical Violence’ in Bible and Violence: A Thick Description edited by Helen Paynter and M. Spalione (Sheffield Phoenix, 2020)

___ Telling Terror in Judges 19: Rape and Reparation for the Levite’s Wife (Routledge, 2020)

___ 'Who is the Wife Whose Virtue is Tested in Numbers 5?' in Attending to the Margins: Essays in Honour of Stephen Finamore edited by Helen Paynter and Petter Hatton (Oxford Centre for Baptist Studies, 2022)

___ ‘Redeeming the Prostitute? Babylon and her fate in Revelation.’ In Violent Biblical Texts: New Perspectives edited by Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022).

___ ‘Land, Seed and Promise. Jacob as Mise en Abyme to Israel.’ In Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter (eds),Violent Biblical Texts: New Perspectives edited by Trevor Laurence and Helen Paynter (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022)

___ ‘Apologists and Appropriators: Protestant Christian reckoning with biblical violence.’ In Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts edited by Maria Power and Helen Paynter (Palgrave McMillan, 2022)

___ ‘Erasing the troubling teens? What happens to the conquest of Canaan when the non-Deuteronomistic biblical writers tell the story?’ In Map or Compass?: The Bible on Violence edited by Michael Spalione and Helen Paynter (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022)

___ 'That the Next Generation Might Remember: The Conquest of Canaan in Israel’s Collective Memory and in the Psalms', Journal of Baptist Theology in Context 8 (March 2023)