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Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women: Case Issues in Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible appears to give mixed and even conflicting signals on four contentious issues: slavery, the Sabbath, war, and God’s charge for women. In Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women, New Testament scholar Willard Swartley seeks, in a spirit of unity and dialogue, to clarify the interpretive difficulties surrounding these topics. A predecessor to his 2003 publication, Homosexuality, this book...

over fifteen centuries of time), as Hanson ably demonstrates,161 it is also prominent in the New Testament as the gospel is addressed to different peoples and problems in different geographical and cultural settings during more than half a century. This understanding might be called the missionary principle of the Bible, and the missionary factor for biblical interpretation. Biblical truth is concrete, shaped usually by specific contexts, needs, and opportunities. Interpretation should affirm and
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