Justice for all : how the Jewish Bible revolutionized ethics /
"Demonstrates how the Jewish Bible radically changed the course of ethical thought and as a result has had enormous influence on later Jewish thought and law, as well as on Christianity and the development of modern Western civilization"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia : Lincoln :
The Jewish Publication Society ; University of Nebraska Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | JPS essential Judaism series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Jewish Bible's unique understanding of God: the ethical relationship of God to the world and humanity
- 2. The revelation at Sinai: ethical implications of the God-Israel relationship
- 3. Providing for the disadvantaged: the stranger, the poor, the widow, and the orphan (with a note on slavery)
- 4. The primacy of morality over ritual: a prophetic innovation
- 5. The requirement of "Return": the development of repentance from Torah to prophecy (with a note on theodicy)
- 6. The establishment of hope: the prophetic promise of redemption.