INTRODUCTION TO BIBLE STUDIES Many of the Bible Studies contained in this linked document have appeared in a slightly different form in David Steven's (Leader of the Corrymeela Community) book on reconciliation,
The Land of Unlikeness (Columba Press, 2004). They mainly deal with the subject of reconciliation or related themes, such as dealing with difference.
Many of the studies have been influenced by the work of the French literary critic Rene Girard. Girard alerts us to the presence of mimetic rivalry, conflict, scapegoating, exclusion, expulsion and sacred violence in biblical texts.