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This strange and sacred scripture : wrestling with the Old Testament and its oddities / Matthew Richard Schlimm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, c2015.Description: xvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801039799
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • BS 1140.3.S35 2015
Contents:
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.

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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.