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Author:   Paul Copan
Publisher:   Baker Publishing Group
Imprint:   Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.352kg
ISBN:  

9781540964557

ISBN 10:   1540964558
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   20 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Contents Part 1: The Great Divorce: How Wide the Divide between the Old and New Testaments? 1. The Old Testament God: Critics from Without and from Within 2. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same as the God of the New? (1): Marcion versus Moses 3. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same as the God of the New? (2): Moses versus Jesus? 4. Is the God of the Old Testament the Same as the God of the New? (3): Moses versus Jesus? (Continued) Part 2: Lex Rex (the Law, the King): What Makes the Law of Moses So Special? 5. ""From Heaven or from Human Origin?"" Is the Mosaic Law Just Another Ancient Law Code? 6. Multiple Sources and Late Dates? Does the Mosaic Law Have Multiple Authors? Was Fighting the Canaanites a Fiction from the Sixth Century BC? 7. Differences between the Law of Moses and Ancient Near Eastern Laws (1): The Biblical Vision and Worldview 8. Differences between the Law of Moses and Ancient Near Eastern Laws (2): Human Dignity, Relationship, and Equality 9. Differences between the Law of Moses and Ancient Near Eastern Laws (3): Poverty and Wealth Part 3: Crime and Punishment: Violations and Penalties in Old Testament Law 10. A Bit of Ancient Near Eastern Context 11. Israel's Punishments as Nonliteral in the Pentateuch 12. Israel's Punishments as Nonliteral in Old Testament History Part 4: For Whom the Bell Tolls: Harsh Texts and Difficult Old Testament Questions 13. How Was David ""a Man after God's Own Heart""? 14. Why Does God Harden People's Hearts? 15. Divine Smitings (1): Noah's Flood, Egypt's Firstborn, Uzzah's Death 16. Divine Smitings (2): Elisha and the Bears, and Punishing Children to the Third and Fourth Generations 17. ""Bashing Babies against the Rock""? Imprecatory Psalms in the Old Testament 18. ""Let His Homestead Be Made Desolate"": Imprecatory Psalms in the New Testament 19. Loving Jacob, Hating Esau? Putting Divine and Human Hatred in Perspective Part 5: Of Human Bondage: Women and Servants in Israelite Society 20. Is the Old Testament Really Misogynistic and Patriarchal? 21. Espousing Multiple Wives? Revisiting the Matter of Polygamy 22. Other Troubling Texts about Women: The Nameless Concubine, the Question of War Rape 23. ""Servants"" in Israel: Persons or Property? 24. The ""Acquisition"" of ""Foreign Slaves"" (1): A Deeper Dive into Leviticus 25 000 25. The ""Acquisition"" of ""Foreign Slaves"" (2): Two Objections and the Runaway Option Part 6: War and Peace: Warfare and Violence in the Old Testament (and the New) 26. Jesus Loves Canaanites--and Israelites Too: ""Jesus 101"" and the Old Testament's ""Dark Texts"" 27. ""We Left No Survivors"": Exaggeration Rhetoric in Israel's War Texts 28. Revisiting the Translation of Herem: ""Utter Destruction,"" ""Consecration,"" ""Identity Removal,"" ""Removal from Ordinary Use""? 29. Deuteronomy's Intensified Rhetoric and the Use of Haram 30. Did the Israelites ""Cruelly Invade"" the Land of Canaan? 31. The ""Actual"" God in Old Testament Warfare Part 7: The Heart of the Matter: The Summing Up of All Things in Christ 32. ""God Is Christlike, and in Him There Is No Un-Christlikeness at All"": Our Critics from Within 33. Our Critics from Without (1): Two Important Questions 34. Our Critics from Without (2): Five Big Steps Questions for Small Groups Indexes"

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Paul Copan (PhD, Marquette University), a Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, and apologist, is the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. For 6 years, he served as president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. He was a visiting scholar at Oxford University in 2017. Copan is the author or editor of more than 40 books, including Is God a Moral Monster?; True for You, But Not for Me; That's Just Your Interpretation; When God Goes to Starbucks; and A Little Book for New Philosophers.

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