with a little coaxing, praised the faith of a Canaanite woman<\/a>); his followers expanded this to include Jews and Gentiles, not to mention slave and free, rich and poor.<\/p>\nDare we marginalize Ecclesiastes? Could an approach to the text that gives preferential treatment of some voices over others be considered a genuinely Christian approach to the text? If we don\u2019t think Jesus would marginalize people, then on what basis could we legitimate treat the voices of some human beings as marginal, just because they are a minority within the canon?<\/p>\n
My concluding point in the earlier comment was about not losing the tension, and I think that point still stands. But I still find myself asking whether it is not appropriate to apply Christian principles about the marginalized to the books of the canon of Scripture. To sum it up in a short question: What would Jesus read?
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