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This Strange and Sacred Scripture: Wrestling with the Old Testament and Its Oddities
Matthew Richard Schlimm
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| #218281 in Books | Baker Pub Group/Baker Books | 2015-02-17 | 2015-02-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.68 x6.00l,.83 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | This Strange and Sacred Scripture Wrestling with the Old Testament and Its Oddities||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Very impressed -- adopting it for my teaching|By California_Professor|This is an excellent book that deserves a wide readership. I teach Old Testament at a major school of theology, and I share Schlimm's impression that a lot of people in churches don't know what to do with the Old Testament -- they want to take it as sacred scripture, but are put off by its strangeness. They||
Named a bestseller in the 2015 Fall Books issue of The Christian Century.
The Old Testament can seem strange and disturbing to contemporary readers. What should Christians make of Genesis 1-3, seemingly at odds with modern scientific accounts? Why does the Old Testament contain so much violence? How should Christians handle texts that give women a second-class status? Does the Old Testament contradict itself? Why are so many Psalms filled with anger and sorrow? What should we make of texts that portray God as filled with wrath?
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