This strange and sacred scripture wrestling with the Old Testament and its oddities
The Old Testament can seem strange and disturbing to contemporary readers. What should Christians make of Genesis 1-3, seemingly at odds with modern scientific accounts? Why does the Old Testament contain so much violence? How should Christians handle texts that give women a second-class status? Doe...
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Baker Academic
2015
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Is the Old Testament an enemy, stranger, or friend to the Christian faith?
- Our fleeting moments in paradise
- Darkness over the face of the deep
- The R-rated Bible
- Killing all that breathes: violence in the Old Testament
- Male and female God created them: gender and the Old Testament
- God commands us to do what?! the strange laws of the Bible
- Is the law engraved in stone? the dynamic nature of God's law
- Truth is many sided
- Drowning in tears and raging at God
- Great and terrible is the wrath of the Lord
- The Old Testament's authority
- Appendix: a literal translation of Genesis 2:4b-4:16.
