TY - BOOK AU - Dell,Katharine J. TI - Ethical and unethical in the Old Testament: God and humans in dialogue T2 - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies SN - 9780567012357 AV - BS1199.E8 E85 2010eb U1 - 221.6 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - T & T Clark KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast KW - Ethics in the Bible KW - Morale dans la Bible KW - RELIGION KW - Biblical Criticism & Interpretation KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=378110 ER -