Old Testament Story and Christian Ethics

by Robin Allinson Parry

Christian use of the Old Testament has tended to focus on law and wisdom literature and to marginalize narrative material. This book restores story to its rightful place in Old Testament ethics and aims to set out parameters within which Christian ethical reappropriations of Old Testament narratives can take place.
The study considers reception history, feminist interpretation, discourse analysis and canonical context to shed new light on the terrible story of the rape of Dinah.

250 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1969