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Hanna Strømmen

Hanna Strømmen

Senior Lecturer in Bible, Politics and Culture at Lund University; biblical scholar specializing in biblical reception history and far-right Bible use

Jun 2, 2026

21:08
Tell us about the war Bible.
21:10
Yes.
21:11
Well, the war Bible is the way I describe one of the dominant uses of the Bible that you see quite clearly in parts of the manifesto, the parts that I mentioned that are mostly contained within the third book, Christian Justification of the Struggle, and then there's a subsection about battle verses.
21:30
So many passages that are cited in the manifesto there pertain to war and violence.
21:37
You get a whole set of biblical verses that come up there.
21:42
For instance, 1 Samuel 25:13, which is where David calls upon, uh, his men to take up their swords for battle.
21:51
You get 1 Corinthians 4:20, which is where it talks about the Kingdom of God being not in talk but in power.
24:48
What do they think they're doing? What do they think the connective tissue is?

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