A recording of the Theology Network webinar addressing how we can read the violent texts in the Old Testament productively as evangelical theology students. Ellidh cook shares from her postgrad work on this, answers students questions and points us towards helpful principles for handling these texts wisely.

The violent texts of the Old Testament can be a source trouble for evangelicals reading the bible. In this article Ellidh Cook leads us through how we can approach these texts as Evangelicals, not only as texts that we can cope with, but as texts which glorify God and help us know, love and serve him better. She does this through three examples which summarise three common 'types' of violence in the Old Testament: 1) Abuse towards women, 2) Divinely Mandated Genocide, 3) Violent Laws.

Tim Ward speaks about how the Bible has the authority of the Word of God in an online event. Catch up on that talk here.