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… And Marries Another: Divorce and Remarriage in the Teaching of the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Carefully documented and compassionate, this book explores how early Christians would have understood the statements of Jesus and Paul on divorce and remarriage. Keener then builds a soundly scriptural view of divorce and remarriage—a view that reminds the church that all of its members are forgiven people.

in the opening narrative of his Gospel. It is the case of Joseph, who, when believing that Mary had been unfaithful to him during their betrothal, was ready to divorce her (1:19). The text says that he was “righteous”: he was willing to divorce her, but wished to do it privately to avoid shame for her. But the reader, acquainted only with Jewish (or even Greco-Roman) law would have every reason to assume that Joseph assumed the freedom to remarry, unless Matthew had informed us otherwise. This starkly
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