Reading the Bible with the Dead : What You can Learn from theHistory of Exegesis that You can't Learn from Exegesis Alone - Thompson, John L. (Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2007)
Introduction: On reading with the dead -- 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 -- Conclusion: On cultivating the habit of history.
Keywords: Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History