. . . "However, that violence is an accepted and acceptable part of the Biblical text, at least of the Old Testament, is a given and this leads to the precondition that the modern exegete sensitised to the destructive results of violence should read against the grain of the text (West 2002:241).4 Fowl (1995:32) argues that if we find that the conventional reading of a text helps to underwrite for instanc" .