What You can Learn from theHistory of Exegesis that You can't Learn from Exegesis Alone Thompson, John L. creator text xx Grand Rapids, Mich William B. Eerdmans Pub. 2007 9999 monographic und eng

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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. John L. Thompson Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History BS500 .T56 2007 97808028075330802807534 240126