Abstract
This article deals with the question of how we can deal with texts about children that raise moral questions in our contemporary context. I distinguish three ways of dealing with such problematic texts, namely, diabolization, banalization, and ethicization. Diabolization means considering scriptural texts as absolutely bad. Banalization means relativizing the meaning and the relevance of these scriptural passages, and ethicization refers to an attitude whereby the content of the scriptural texts is interpreted in a new way so that these texts take on a more positive meaning. Finally, I will provide the building blocks of a liberating biblical hermeneutic, referring to the method of ‘resistant reading.’
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