Marital Imagery in the Bible

by Colin Hamer

Book Overview

Marital Imagery in the Bible. It can only be imagined that when the New Testament writers made their (albeit brief) comments on divorce and remarriage that they assumed they would be understood. So what has gone wrong? In the years after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, when Graeco-Roman culture was at its height, the Jewish perspective of marriage and divorce, and thus the context of those brief New Testament comments was lost. The Christian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532669208
• ISBN13: 9781532669200
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"