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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 528.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 528

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics in the Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Physical Description:

xv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : T & T Clark, [2010]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780567217097

0567217094

OCLC:

461631880