Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond provides a thoughtful discussion of biblical composers' treatment of ethical issues and offers an engaging overview of the ways in which these texts have been appropriated, in particular by Jewish contributors. This volume serves to challenge readers' own assumptions about biblical ethics, the applicability and the various meanings and messages that might be derived from an engagement with key biblical texts.
Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond provides a thoughtful discussion of biblical composers' treatment of ethical issues and offers an engaging overview of the ways in which these texts have been appropriated, in particular by Jewish contributors. This volume serves to challenge readers' own assumptions about biblical ethics, the applicability and the various meanings and messages that might be derived from an engagement with key biblical texts.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Susan Niditch is the Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. She was educated at Harvard University, where her teachers, Albert Bates Lord, Frank Moore Cross, Paul D. Hanson, and Isadore Twersky, deeply influenced her scholarly interests and approaches. Her areas of research and teaching include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of folklore and oral-traditional studies; biblical ethics with special interests in war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and study of the rich symbolic media of biblical ritual texts. Her most recent books are The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods (Yale University Press, 2015) and Jonah: A Commentary (Hermeneia Series, 2022).
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1. Religious Ethics: Exploring a Complex Interplay in Israelite Tradition and Beyond * 2. On Killing and Dying: The Case of Capital Punishment * 3. "Proclaim Peace": Ethics of War in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond * 4. A Study in Political Ethics: Resistance to Oppression or Collaboration * 5. A Second Study in Political Ethics: On Forms of Leadership * 6. Ethics of Gender and Sexuality: First Women of Creation, Interpretations and Appropriations * 7. Reproductive Ethics: Maternal Fertility and Fetal Health * 8. Economic Ethics * 9. Environmental Ethics: Imaginings of Paradise and Dystopia * Closing Thoughts * Bibliography
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1. Religious Ethics: Exploring a Complex Interplay in Israelite Tradition and Beyond * 2. On Killing and Dying: The Case of Capital Punishment * 3. "Proclaim Peace": Ethics of War in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond * 4. A Study in Political Ethics: Resistance to Oppression or Collaboration * 5. A Second Study in Political Ethics: On Forms of Leadership * 6. Ethics of Gender and Sexuality: First Women of Creation, Interpretations and Appropriations * 7. Reproductive Ethics: Maternal Fertility and Fetal Health * 8. Economic Ethics * 9. Environmental Ethics: Imaginings of Paradise and Dystopia * Closing Thoughts * Bibliography
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