Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies: The Need for Inclusive Biblical Interpretation

by Cheryl Anderson, Anbara Salam, Linda Cheng, et al.

The Ten Commandments condone slavery, and Deuteronomy 22 deems the rape of an unmarried woman to injure her father rather than the woman herself. While many Christians ignore most Old Testament laws as obsolete or irrelevant-with others picking and choosing among them in support of specific political and social agendas-it remains a basic tenet of Christian doctrine that the faith is contained in both the Old and the New Testament. If the law is ignored,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195305507
• ISBN13: 9780195305500
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"