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Disagreements

Our Responses to Webb

Agreements:

  • There is nothing redemptive about his hermeneutic.
  • It's subjective.
  • It does not mention the Holy Spirit.
  • Jesus goes unmentioned!
  • Static interpretation is not always sufficient.
  • His hermeneutic recognizes all of the OT as good.

Looking at ANE

Webb's Method - Deut. 21

Deut. 21 Treatment of female POW's:

  • Marriage
  • "cooling-off" period
  • Potential freedom
  • ban against torture

Common ANE treatment of female POW's:

  • Mutilation
  • Torture
  • Rape
  • Enslavement
  • Murder

Redemptive Spirit

"As Christians read this text, it begins to dawn on them that the Bible contains a war ethic that includes 'grabbing hot-looking women' as wives. This should rightly be a disturbing feature within the text as we read our Bibles today."

When we view Deut. 21, we view it with the lens of our experience knowing that it could be better.

Common Misconceptions

RM hermeneutic...

  • "seeks to replace a grammatical-historical hermeneutic."

  • "seeks to establish a 'better ethic' than the NT."

  • "undermines the authority of the Bible/NT."

  • "cannot provide a clear ethical 'end point' for its trajectory of RM."

Redemptive Movement

Two Approaches to Hermeneutics

1. Static/ Stationary Appropriation

2. Redemptive Movement/ Redemptive Spirit Appropriation

Capturing the Spirit of Scripture

“If it were a matter to be determined by personal sympathies, tastes, or feelings, I should be as ready as any man to condemn the institution of slavery, for all my prejudices of education habit, and social position stand entirely opposed to it. But as a Christian … I am compelled to submit my weak and erring intellect to the authority of the almighty For then only can I be safe in my conclusions.”

- John Henry Hopkins

1. Historical and social context

2. Canonical context

How would you explain this passage

with a non-believer?

10 When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

Corporal Punishment

Deuteronomy 21:10-14

Museum Piece analogy

Similar to Christians copying and pasting Scripture to their lives

Spanking Children

Most Christians do not punish children in the same way that the Bible seemingly prescribes (Proverbs)

Webb argues this is evidence of a significant ethical movement toward the improvement of discipline for children

Meaning

William Webb: Redemptive Movement

  • Purpose Meaning
  • Abstracted Meaning
  • Redemptive-Movement Meaning
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