TY - BOOK AU - Thompson, John L. TI - Reading the Bible with the Dead : : What You can Learn from theHistory of Exegesis that You can't Learn from Exegesis Alone SN - 97808028075330802807534 AV - BS500 .T56 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. : PB - William B. Eerdmans Pub., KW - Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History N1 - 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 ER -