Reading the Bible with the dead
Subtitle: what you can learn from the history of exegesis that you can't learn from exegesis alone
By: John L. Thompson.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780802807533
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History.
Description: An exploration of overlooked sections of the Bible.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: on reading with the dead; title: Why anyone who cares about the Bible should also care about the history of its interpretation; title: Hagar in salvation-history; title: Victim or villain? :  symbol or saint?; title: Sacrificing Jephthah's daughter; title: The life and death of a father's only-begotten; title: Psalms and curses; title: Anger management, on earth as it is in heaven; title: Patriarchs behaving badly; title: Lying, pandering, polygamy and insurrection; title: Gomer and Hosea; title: Does God approve of wife abuse?; title: Silent prophetesses?; title: Unraveling theory & practice in 1 Corinthians 11; title: Divorce; title: Moses, Jesus, & Paul on the proper end of marriage; title: Wasn't Adam deceived?; title: Paul's arguments about women in creation, fall & redemption; title: Reading sex and violence; title: Dinah, Tamar, and too many others; title: Conclusion: on cultivating the habit of history; title: Reading the Bible in the presence of the past; title: Abbreviations; title: Commentaries in English prior to 1600 : a finding-guide.