Reading the Bible with the dead : what you can learn from the history 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.
Book
LocationCall NumberStatus
G/F CollectionBS 500 .T56Available

  • 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.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-314) and indexes.
  • William B. Eerdmans Pub
  • 0802807534 (pbk)
  • 9780802807533 (pbk)
  • text
  • volume
  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/AKJz