A long tradition of reading John 4 has viewed the woman at the well as immoral. How was that reading established? What is its textual warrant? What are alternative traditions? What does all this tell us about the role of assumptions in exegesis? Dr. Benjamin Wall is Professor of Theology and Ethics at South University. His publications include Welcome as a Way of Life and he is currently a resident scholar at Lanier Theological Library working on C. S. Lewis' theological anthropology related to disabilities and mental health.
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