Immoral Bible : approaches to Biblical ethics / Eryl W. Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Eryl W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics in the Bible.

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

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, N.Y. : T&T Clarck, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this work Eryl W. Davies sums up a career's worth of in-depth reflection on the thorny issue of biblical ethics examining the bible's, at times problematic, stance upon slavery, polygamy and perhaps its most troublesome aspect, the sanctioning of violence and warfare. This is most pertinent in respect to Joshua 6-11 a text which lauds the 'holy war' of the Israelites, anihiliting the native inhabitants of Canaan, and a text which has been used to legitimise the actions of white colonists in North America, the Boers in South Africa and right-wing Zionists in modern Israel. Davies begins wi

Contents:

Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Immoral Bible; Chapter 2 The Evolutionary Approach; Chapter 3 The Cultural Relativists' Approach; Chapter 4 Canonical Approaches; Chapter 5 The Paradigmatic Approach; Chapter 6 The Reader-response Approach; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Subjects; Index of Modern Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612821578

9780567047724

0567047725

9781282821576

1282821571

9780567601483

056760148X

OCLC:

670412117