Helen Paynter

Bio:

Baptist Minister and the Director of Bristol Baptist College’s Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence.

Recent Publications:

• God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today? Honestly Wrestling with the Old Testament: BRF (forthcoming)
• ‘Revenge for my Two Eyes’: Talion and Mimesis in the Samson narrative. Biblical Interpretation, 2018.
• Ahab: Heedless Father, Sullen Son: Humour and Intertextuality in 1 Kings 21. JSOT, 2018.
• Immigration and the Church: Reflecting Faithfully in our Generation: Grove, 2017
• Reduced Laughter: Seriocomic Features and their Functions in the Book of Kings Leiden: Brill, 2016
• The Ethics of Jubilee in Leviticus 25. Ministry Today, Spring 2016
• Jubilee Ethics and the Refugee Crisis. Ministry Today, Summer 2016
• Love the Sojourner. Baptist Ministers’ Journal, October 2016

Web: csbvbristol.org.uk
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