Ethical and unethical in the Old Testament : God and humans in dialogue / edited by Katharine J. Dell.

Contributor(s):

Dell, Katharine J. (Katharine Julia), 1961-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 528. | T & T Clark library of biblical studiesPublication details: New York : T & T Clark, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 287 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780567012357
0567012352
1283192004
9781283192002

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethical and unethical in the Old Testament.DDC classification:

221.6 22

LOC classification:

BS1199.E8 E85 2010eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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