xii The Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture
3.1.1 Violence and Its Legal Remedies 144 3.1.2 The Law of Extermination 145 3.1.3 The Prayer Calling for Vengeance 148 a) The One Who Prays: The Suffering Person 148 b) What Does the One Praying Request? “Deliver Us from Evil” 149 c) Who Are the Enemies of the One Praying? 150 3.2 The Social Status of Women 150 3.2.1 The Submission of Wives to Their Husbands 151 3.2.2 The Silence of Women in Ecclesial Gatherings 152 3.2.3 The Role of Women in the Assembly 153 IV. Conclusion 154 4.1 Brief Synthesis 154 4.2 Some Consequences for the Reading of the Bible 155 General Conclusion 157 I. II.
The Divine Provenance of the Biblical Writings 158 1.1 In Consonance with the Word 159 The Plurality of the Modes of Attestation 160
III. The Truth of Sacred Scripture 162 3.1 Multiform Truth 163 3.2 Truth in Historical Form 164 3.3 Canonical Truth 165 IV. The Literary Traditions of Other Religions 165 V.
The Interpretation of Difficult Parts of the Bible 166
Scriptural Index 169
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