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.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2007.Description: xi, 324 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0802807534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780802807533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.609 22 T374r
LOC classification:
  • BS 500 .T56 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: on reading with the dead -- Hagar in salvation-history -- Sacrificing Jephthah's daughter -- Psalms and curses -- Patriarchs behaving badly -- Gomer and Hosea -- Silent prophetesses? -- Divorce -- Wasn't Adam deceived? -- Reading sex and violence -- Conclusion: on cultivating the habit of history.
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Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 220.609 T374r (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000930054

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

Introduction: on reading with the dead -- Hagar in salvation-history -- Sacrificing Jephthah's daughter -- Psalms and curses -- Patriarchs behaving badly -- Gomer and Hosea -- Silent prophetesses? -- Divorce -- Wasn't Adam deceived? -- Reading sex and violence -- Conclusion: on cultivating the habit of history.

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