A succinct and authoritative overview of each book of the Bible, including the apocryphal books, setting them in their religious, historical, and literary contexts.
A succinct and authoritative overview of each book of the Bible, including the apocryphal books, setting them in their religious, historical, and lite...
The theory and praxis of biblical law in the historical and contemporary landscape of American law and culture is contentious and controversial. Richard Hiers provides a new consideration of the subject with an emphasis upon the underlying justice and compassion implicit within. Special consideration is given to matters of civil law, the death penalty, and due process. An analysis of various biblical trial scenes are also included.
The book draws on, and in turn relates to three areas of scholarship and concern: biblical studies, social ethics, and jurisprudence (legal theory). Modern...
The theory and praxis of biblical law in the historical and contemporary landscape of American law and culture is contentious and controversial. Ri...
In this volume, Richard Hiers challenges the popular assumption that the Bible has a low view of women and that biblical law either ignores women or requires them to be subject and subservient to men. He does so by identifying and carefully examining hundreds of biblical texts and allowing them to speak for themselves. Among the findings:
--that biblical tradition generally represents women positively, as strong and independent persons; --that no text represents wives as subject to their husbands and that no biblical law requires such subjection; --that biblical laws provide...
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In this volume, Richard Hiers challenges the popular assumption that the Bible has a low view of women and that biblical law either...
