Death and justice : shifting paradigms in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism / The ethics of Eden : truth-telling in Genesis 2-3 / Ed Noort. 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.
Series:
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 528 T & T Clark library of biblical studies
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