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Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics

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“The verse mentions saving daughters as well as sons before Sodom is destroyed, and those daughters include the daughters Lot was about to offer to the men. Instead of commanding Lot to save himself and leave his daughters to be raped while Sodom was getting destroyed, the angels emphasized the maintenance of the welfare of all members of Lot’s family, including his daughters.”

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Book:Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics
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“Dear reader, here is a sad truth: you and I fall short of being humans. We own up to this when we admit to being sinners. Sin is not something we add to ourselves and need to get rid of (although it can feel like that; our sins constitute a 'burden' that 'is intolerable,' according to a traditional prayer, and the Epistle to the Hebrews speaks of 'the sin that clings so closely' [12:1 NRSV]). Rather, sin actually is a defect, a falling short on our part of living up to our nature, a failure to be human in the full sense. We sinners, who live among sinners, never have seen in the flesh a totally real human being. The astonishing claim is that Jesus is the one, true, complete human being. So when we say that Jesus is like us in all things except sin, we are not saying that we have something, 'sin,' which Jesus fails to have. It's the opposite: Jesus has something we do not have--namely, full humanity from which nothing has been broken off and taken away. And yet, sinners that we be, we do have Jesus...”

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Book:Friendship: The Heart of Being Human
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“They ask of me only to weep repentance for a sin that does not concern me and I shall get in return an alien freedom I don’t understand: to be drubbed in one thin, wounding water after another of their philosophy - and confidently they would hang their washing in the heavens.”

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Book:Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig = Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual Anthology
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