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Reading the Bible with the dead : what you can learn from the history of exegesis that you can't learn from exegesis alone /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., ©2007.Description: xi, 324 pages. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780802807533 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.609 22
LOC classification:
  • BS500 .T56 2007
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Contents:
Hagar in salvation-history -- Victim or villain? : symbol or saint? -- Sacrificing Jephthah's daughter -- The life and death of a father's only-begotten -- Psalms and curses -- Anger management, on earth as it is in heaven -- Patriarchs behaving badly -- How should we follow saints who lie, cheat, break promises, commit insurrection, endanger women, and take extra wives? -- Gomer and Hosea -- Does God approve of wife abuse? -- Silent prophetesses? -- Unraveling theory and practice in 1 Corinthians 11 -- Divorce -- Moses, Jesus, and Paul on the proper end of marriage -- Wasn't Adam deceived? -- Deciphering Paul's arguments about women in creation, fall, and redemption -- Reading sex and violence -- Dinah, Bathsheba, Tamar, and too many others.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Non-fiction 220.609 T473R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available 060978
Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Non-fiction 220.609 T473R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available 035382

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-314) and indexes.

Hagar in salvation-history -- Victim or villain? : symbol or saint? -- Sacrificing Jephthah's daughter -- The life and death of a father's only-begotten -- Psalms and curses -- Anger management, on earth as it is in heaven -- Patriarchs behaving badly -- How should we follow saints who lie, cheat, break promises, commit insurrection, endanger women, and take extra wives? -- Gomer and Hosea -- Does God approve of wife abuse? -- Silent prophetesses? -- Unraveling theory and practice in 1 Corinthians 11 -- Divorce -- Moses, Jesus, and Paul on the proper end of marriage -- Wasn't Adam deceived? -- Deciphering Paul's arguments about women in creation, fall, and redemption -- Reading sex and violence -- Dinah, Bathsheba, Tamar, and too many others.

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