FROM TIME TO TIME THERE ARE CALLS TO RECOGNIZE THE OLD TESTAMENT AS EXTREMIST LITERATURE. THE CRUELTY AND ROUGHNESS OF SOME PSALMES, BIBLICAL CALLS FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING AND BLOODY REVENGE, SHOCKING STORIES ABOUT THE ACTIONS OF BO HA - HOW TO UNDERSTAND THIS? Many readers of the Holy Scriptures experience, to put it mildly, shock from some biblical passages. Even among Christians, the Old Testament often has a bad reputation. What is silent in the adapted retellings of the Bible? Why did the authors of the Old Testament have such a tough temper? How to understand the bizarre and “barbaric” customs of the great biblical heroes? The long-awaited answer to a difficult question: the cruelty and rudeness of the texts The Old Testament, calls for ethnic cleansing and bloody revenge, shocking stories about the actions of God - how to understand this? A fascinating read that will change many of your ideas. Popular science publication