CONFRONTING OLD TESTAMENT CONTROVERSIES
Pressing Questions about
EVOLUTION, SEXUALITY, HISTORY, and VIOLENCE
TREMPER LONGMAN III
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Longman, Tremper, author.
Title: Confronting Old Testament controversies : pressing questions about evolution, sexuality, history, and violence / Tremper Longman III.
Description: Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018026904 | ISBN 9780801019111 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Bible. Old Testament—Socio-rhetorical criticism.
Classification: LCC BS1182.5 .L66 2019 | DDC 221.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018026904
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1. Creation and Evolution: Are the Bible and Science in Conflict?
How Do We Interpret the Bible?
What Is Genesis 1–3 Teaching Us?
Excursus: Creation from Nothing?
Excursus: Does Genesis 1:29–30 Undermine Evolution?
Evolution and the Historical Adam and Eve
Excursus: Critiquing a Last-Gasp Effort to Undo Evolutionary Creationism
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About Confronting Old Testament Controversies: Pressing Questions about Evolution, Sexuality, History, and ViolenceThe Old Testament is rife with controversial passages and events that raise questions about its continued significance for today. Often our solutions have tended toward the extremes—ignore problem passages and pretend they don’t matter or obsess over them and treat them as though they are the only thing that matters. Now Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman confronts pressing questions of concern to modern audiences, particularly young people in the church: • the creation/evolution debate • human sexuality • the historicity of people, places, and events • God-ordained violence Pastors, leaders in the church, and thoughtful and troubled Christians in the pews will find here a well-reasoned and faithful approach to dealing with the Old Testament passages so many find challenging or disconcerting. |
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