Reading the Bible with the Dead by John L. Thompson

Book

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Reading the Bible with the Dead by John L. Thompson

Description

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. xi, 324 p. ;23 cm.

Book Details

Author

Thompson, John L.

Place Published

City

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Date Published

2007

Publication Subjects

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History.

Call No.

BS500 .T56 2007

ISBN

9780802807533 (pbk.)

LCCN

2006039043

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-314) and indexes.