LähdeteoksetCorporal Punishment in the Bible
A Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic for Troubling Texts
William J. Webb
luotu 3.2.2026 klo 11:17
Sivuja: 192
Kustantaja: IVP Academic, 2011
ISBN-13: 9780830827619
ISBN-10: 0830827617
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The rod? The whip? Amputation? Beatings? How should we interpret such troubling biblical texts?
William Webb confronts those often avoided-biblical passages that call for the corporal punishment of children, slaves and wrongdoers. How should we understand and apply those injunctions? Are we obligated to replicate them today? Building on the findings of his previous work in Slaves, Women & Homosexuals, Webb argues that a redemptive hermeneutic points us to God's ultimate ethic and enables us to remain truly biblical.
This is a must-read for parents with young children, and for theologians who seek to apply the theology of texts from another time and another world to the contemporary context.
Webb challenges the premises of the traditional spanking position at a hermeneutical level and exposes its failure to come to grips with what the Bible actually says on the subject. Webb's logic is tight and his insights penetrating.
I wish everyone who is interested in doing grammatical-historical interpretation and application of the Scriptures could read the meticulous way William Webb works to find and unfold the Bible's own ultimate ethic.
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Tri William J. Webb on Uuden testamentin ja raamatuntutkimuksen dosentti (Tyndale Seminary, Ontario, CA). Aiemmin hän toimi 20 vuotta Uuden testamentin professorina (Heritage Seminary).
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