Reading the Bible with the Dead <subTitle>What you can learn from the history of exegesis that you can't learn from exegesis alone</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Thompson, John L.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1952-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">7:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>William B. Eerdmans Pub.</publisher> <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>324tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>23 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>John Thompson here presents nine case studies in the history of exegesis -- including the stories of Hagar and Jephthah's daughter, the imprecatory psalms, and texts that address domestic relations, particularly divorce -- in order to demonstrate the valuable insights into Scripture that we can gain not only from what individual commentators say but from fifteen centuries' cumulative witness to the meaning of Scripture in the life of the church...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">John L. Thompson</note> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc History</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Exegesis</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">220.6</classification> <classification authority="ddc">T468-J65</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780802807533</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11015/reading.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11015/reading.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg"/> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070951.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>