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Ethical and unethical in the Old Testament : God and humans in dialogue /

Whilst there has been much interest in the application of ethics to the Old Testament, the focus is not generally the other way around: allowing the Old Testament to speak for itself as to ethical behaviour. Contributors discuss the ethical behaviour of Biblical characters.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dell, Katharine J. (Katharine Julia), 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : T & T Clark, ©2010.
Colección:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 528.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Old Testament texts and genres. The ethics of Eden : truth-telling in Genesis 2-3 / Robert P. Gordon. Desire for ethics or the ethics of desire? / Diana Lipton. Psalm 101 and the ethics of kingship / Andrew Mein. The ethics of warfare and the holy war tradition in the book of Judges / Janet Tollington. Prophecy, ethics, and the divine anger / Ronald E. Clements. Justice for whom? : social and environmental ethics and the Hebrew prophets / Hilary Marlow. The dark side of God in the Old Testament / John Barton. The ethics of friendship in Wisdom Literature / Graham Davies. What makes the strange woman of Proverbs 1-9 strange? / Daniel J. Estes. Does God behave unethically in the book of Job? / Katharine J. Dell. Snakes and ladders : levels of biblical law / Philip Jenson
  • Post-biblical perspectives. Family values in the Second Temple period / Charlotte Hempel. Ethical stance as an authorial issue in the Targums / Carol A. Dray. Death and justice : shifting paradigms in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism / Ed Noort.