01453nam a2200169Ia 4500 240126s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97808028075330802807534 eng BS500 .T56 2007 Thompson, John L. Reading the Bible with the Dead : What You can Learn from theHistory of Exegesis that You can't Learn from Exegesis Alone / John L. Thompson Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2007 xi, 324 p. ; 23 cm. Introduction: 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. Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. 0 0 0 0 GETS GETS GEN 2024-01-29 0 BS500 .T56 2007 00032910 2024-01-29 20:19:46 2024-01-29 BK 51688 51688