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Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural & Practical Perspectives (Third Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

“There is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” The conversation about the relationship between women and men and their roles in the Christian life and the church has evolved, but the topic continues to inspire debate and disagreement. The third edition of this groundbreaking work brings together scholars firmly committed to the authority of Scripture to explore...

wrong unintentionally”) could be atoned for by making an offering, and the offender could be forgiven, for it was a shegagah, an “error, inadvertent sin, in which one is conscious of one’s act but not of its consequences.”39 It is not premeditated (see Josh 20:3). Defiant sin, however, which is referred to in the text as acting “with a high hand,” beyad ramah, as if one is shaking one’s fist in the face of God, is very different. Defiant sinners were reviling or blaspheming Yahweh and were to be
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