The Bible and Moral Injury: Reading Scripture Alongside War's Unseen Wounds

The Bible and Moral Injury offers an exploration (with case studies) of the interpretation of biblical texts, especially war-related narratives and ritual descriptions from the Old Testament, in conversation with research on the emerging notion of moral injury within psychology, military studies, philosophy, and ethics. This book explores two questions simultaneously:

What happens when we read biblical texts, especially biblical stories of war and violence, in light of emerging research on...