Introduction: The Bible and the psychology of violence / D. Andrew Kille -- Part I: Cultures of violence in the Bible -- Paradise lost: childhood punishment and the myth oAdam's sin / Benjamin Abelow -- With the jawbone of a donkey: shame, violence, and punishment in the Samson narrative / Daniel J. Terry -- Biblical terrorism / Dan Merkur -- The transgression of aggression: learning to love the hate in the New Testament (and ourselves!) / Michael Willett Newheart -- Part II: The Bible within cultures of violence -- Submit or else!: intimate partner violence, aggression, abusers, and the Bible Ronald R. Clark, Jr. -- The quiet storm: explaining the cultural context of violence against women within a feminist perspective / Carol Klose Smith and Darcie Davis-Gage -- The deadly search for God: absolute aggression in the heritage of the Bible / Matthias Beier -- A destroyer will come against Babylon: George W. Bush's oracles against the nations / Dereck Daschke -- Sent ahead or left behind?: war and peace in the Apocalypse, eschatology, and the left behind series / Ronald R. Clark, Jr.