Wars of conquest, merciless massacres of innocents, racial discrimination and genocide in the name of God - will the modern reader of the Bible have enough mental strength to comprehend the meaning of all the bloodthirsty stories of the Holy Scriptures? Why do many believers stubbornly ignore, seek to consign to oblivion, or take comfort in flimsy explanations for difficult passages in the Bible? How did the cruel texts of the Bible influence the course of history? What shocking conclusions will we come to if we honestly compare the Bible and the Koran? What to do with the Bible as it is today? The author of this provocative and very timely book about violence in the sacred traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam challenges all our ideas about religion, bloodshed and terror.