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Article: The family in the Bible.
- Article from:
- Biblical Theology Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
- Author:
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Abstract
I had begun study of the varied depths of partriarchalism in the Bible before Leland White died, even before 9/11, but when the opportunity arose to join in a tribute to my long-time friend I knew I had written it for him. The whole of the Bible and of Jewish and Christian tradition can be viewed within the tension between the Bible's focus on family, or community worth and responsibility, and its struggle toward affirmation of individual worth and responsibility within the larger family. That tension was brought home to the West in a traumatic way in the events of 9/11 and dramatized tragically in the recent climax of the Second Intifada. The varying ...