Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament God and Humans in Dialogue

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ISBN: 9780567217097 | 0567217094
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/2/2010

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Discusses ethical behaviour in the OT and beyond through its characters, its varying portrayals of God and humanity in mutual dialogue and through its authors.

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Preface	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Old Testament Texts and Genres
The Ethics of Eden: Truth-Telling in Genesis 2-3	p. 11
Desire for Ethics or the Ethics of Desire?	p. 34
Psalm 101 and the Ethics of Kingship	p. 56
The Ethics of Warfare and the Holy War Tradition in the Book of Judges	p. 71
Prophecy, Ethics and the Divine Anger	p. 88
Justice for Whom? Social and Environmental Ethics and the Hebrew Prophets	p. 103
The Dark Side of God in the Old Testament	p. 122
The Ethics of Friendship in Wisdom Literature	p. 135
What Makes the Strange Woman of Proverbs 1-9 Strange?	p. 151
Does God Behave Unethically in the Book of Job?	p. 170
Snakes and Ladders: Levels of Biblical Law	p. 187
Post-Biblical Perspectives
Family Values in the Second Temple Period	p. 211
Ethical Stance as an Authorial Issue in the Targums	p. 231
Death and Justice: Shifting Paradigms in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism	p. 255
Index of References	p. 271
Index of Authors	p. 283
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Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament God and Humans in Dialogue

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