Ethical Ambiguity In The Hebrew Bible

Author : Shira Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108429408
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible written by Shira Weiss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elucidates the Scriptural moral tradition by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis.

Author : Shira Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108631231
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible written by Shira Weiss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Shira Weiss elucidates the moral tradition of the Hebrew Bible by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis. Examining the most essential questions of Jewish Thought, she uses contemporary philosophy to decipher Scriptural ethics as uncovered from a variety of biblical stories. Aided by ancient, medieval, and contemporary resources, Weiss presents a comprehensive discussion of enduring ethical questions that arise from biblical narrative and continue to be contested in modern times. She shows how such analysis can unsettle assumptions and beliefs, as well as foster moral reflection. Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible will be of interest to scholars and students of ethics, philosophy, Jewish thought, biblical theology, and exegesis.

Author : Eryl W. Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567699641
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Ethics in the Hebrew Bible written by Eryl W. Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the stories of the Hebrew Bible be read for their ethical value? Eryl W. Davies uses the narratives of King David in order to explore this, basing his argument on Martha Nussbaum's notion that a sensitive and informed commentary can unpack the complexity of fictional accounts. Davies discusses David and Michal in 1 Sam. 19:11-17; David and Jonathan in 1 Sam. 20; David and Bathsheba in 2 Sam. 11; Nathan's parable in 2 Sam. 12; and the rape of Tamar in 2 Sam. 13. By examining these narratives, Davies shows that a fruitful and constructive dialogue is possible between biblical ethics and modern philosophy. He also emphasizes the ethical accountability of biblical scholars and their responsibility to evaluate the moral teaching that the biblical narratives have to offer.

Author : Niditch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197671977
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond written by Niditch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond, Susan Niditch takes soundings among those who have recently approached ethics in the Hebrew Scriptures, their methodological interests, their goals, and their definitions of "ethics" itself. By means of close exegesis of specific passages from the Hebrew Bible and a discussion of the interpretation and application of these ancient texts by post-biblical Jewish writers and other creative contributors from outside the Jewish tradition, this volume explores topics in religious ethics, social justice, political ethics, economic ethics, issues in ecology, gender and sexuality, killing and dying, and reproductive ethics. Certain goals inform all chapters: interest in tracing recurring themes concerning the definition of the good, and the various ways in which Jewish thinkers rely on the more ancient material, interpret, and appropriate it; the links between areas in ethics, for example, between gender and reproductive ethics or war-views and attitudes to political ethics and environmental ethics. Niditch carves out specific biblical texts and themes in order to explore them in depth with special interest in the meanings and messages that emerge from ancient Israelite writers' varied treatments of issues in ethics. Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond provides a thoughtful discussion of biblical composers' treatment of ethical issues and 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 engagement with key biblical texts.

Author : Emily K. Arndt
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802865690
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demanding Our Attention written by Emily K. Arndt and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we possibly learn about our relationships to others from reading the story of an ancient father who raised a knife to slaughter his beloved only son? Contemporary Christian ethicists, faced with such dilemmas, are often tempted to treat the Hebrew Bible in a limited, distanced, and even dismissive way. Yet Emily Arndt here argues that ancient scriptures can be a vital resource for Christian ethical studies today. Focusing on a close analysis of the akedah the story of Abraham s near-sacrifice of Isaac she demonstrates the power of even the most troubling and uncomfortable Old Testament narratives to teach valuable ethical lessons. Placing ourselves in relationship to such complex, perhaps un-resolvable, and always challenging sacred texts, she says, is in itself a practice that can help us learn to relate authentically and ethically to others. This is a fully formed, sophisticated, and beautifully written book, offering an important contribution to the field of theological ethics. . . . A fitting tribute to a scholarly career that was cut short all too soon. Jean Porter (from the foreword)

Author : Charles D. Harvey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110893967
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Morality in the Diaspora? written by Charles D. Harvey and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores issues of moral character found in the different text versions of the book of Esther. First the study suggests the two most common approaches to perceived moral problems in the story of Esther: avoidance and transformation. Then it investigates selected portions of the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint Text, and the Greek Alpha-Text stories of Esther, focusing on issues of morality via character analysis. Finally it concentrates on the moral ambiguity found in all three versions, and on the ways in which moral character in the Greek stories has been transformed.

Author : Eryl W. Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567047725
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Immoral Bible written by Eryl W. Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eryl W. Davies discusses the ethically problematic passages of the Hebrew Bible and the way scholars have addressed aspects of the bible generally regarded as offensive and unacceptable.

Author : Gershom M. H. Ratheiser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567072762
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible written by Gershom M. H. Ratheiser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ratheiser's study provides the framework for a non-confessional, mitzvoth ethics-centered and historical-philological approach to the Jewish bible and deals with the basic steps of an alternative paradigmatic perspective on the biblical text. The author seeks to demostrate the ineptness of confessional and ahistorical approaches to the Jewish bible. Based on his observations and his survey of the history of interpretation of the Jewish bible, Ratheiser introduces an alternative hermeneutical-exegetical approach to the Jewish bible: the paradigm of examples. His study concludes that the biblical text is a collection of writings designed and formed from a specifically ethical-ethnic outlook. In other words, he regards the Jewish bible to be written as an etiology of ancient instruction by ancient Jews to Jews and for Jews. As such, it serves as a religious-ethical identity marker that provides ancient Jews and their descendants with an etiology of Jewish life. Ratheiser regards this religious-ethical agenda to have been the driving force in the minds of the final editors/compilers of the biblical text as we have it today.

Author : Tareq Hesham Moqbel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004696474
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in the Qurʾān and the Tafsīr Tradition written by Tareq Hesham Moqbel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the articulation of ethics in the Qurʾān and the tafsīr tradition. Based on an examination of several apparently problematic Qurʾānic narrative pericopes and how the exegetes grappled with them, the book demonstrates that the moral world of the Qurʾān is polyvalent and non-linear, owing, above all, to its intrinsic ethical antinomies and textual ambiguities. That is, the book contends that paradox and uncertainty are both constituents of the Qurʾān’s ethical architectonics, and that through these constituents the Qurʾān charts a system of ethics that seeks to tread in the midst of a non-ideal world rife with uncertainty. The book also argues that the tafsīr tradition tends to erode the hermeneutical openness of the Qurʾān and, thereby, limits the Qurʾān’s ethical potential. The book, thus, advances our understanding of Qurʾānic ethics and contributes to the field of tafsīr studies and to the scholarship on Qurʾānic hermeneutics.

Author : Katharine Dell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567217094
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament written by Katharine Dell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.