01406nam a2200145Ia 4500008004100000020002800041041000800069050002200077100002300099245014800122260006100270300002800331505085000359650005101209240126s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97808028075330802807534  aeng  aBS500 b.T56 2007  aThompson, John L.  0aReading the Bible with the Dead : bWhat You can Learn from theHistory of Exegesis that You can't Learn from Exegesis Alone /cJohn L. Thompson  aGrand Rapids, Mich. : bWilliam B. Eerdmans Pub., c2007  axi, 324 p. b; c23 cm.  aIntroduction: On reading with the dead -- 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 -- Conclusion: On cultivating the habit of history.  aBible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.