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Old Testament -> Judges

“And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.”—Judges 19:29

Judges is a violent book even by biblical standards. It begins by chopping off the thumbs and big toes of a captured king and ends by chopping up a dead concubine’s body and sending the pieces in the mail parcel post. Along the way it describes, with apparent relish and approval, a gruesome “message from God” (a knife blade stuck deeply into a fat man’s belly); a tent stake driven through a sleeping man’s skull; a couple of severed heads delivered to Gideon; the killing of 69 brothers upon a single stone; a daughter killed by her father as a sacrifice to God; 300 foxes tied together by their tails and lit on fire; 1000 men killed with a jawbone of an ass; and, in what is probably the most disgusting story in all literature, the rape, death and mutilation of the Levite’s concubine. And I’ve left a lot out. Read it yourself, if you have a strong enough stomach, that is.

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