Ethical and unethical in the Old Testament

Ethical and unethical in the Old Testament God and humans in dialogue / [electronic resource] : edited by Katharine J. Dell. - New York : T & T Clark, c2010. - xv, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 528. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Old Testament texts and genres. The ethics of Eden : truth-telling in Genesis 2-3 / Desire for ethics or the ethics of desire? / Psalm 101 and the ethics of kingship / The ethics of warfare and the holy war tradition in the book of Judges / Prophecy, ethics, and the divine anger / Justice for whom? : social and environmental ethics and the Hebrew prophets / The dark side of God in the Old Testament / The ethics of friendship in Wisdom Literature / What makes the strange woman of Proverbs 1-9 strange? / Does God behave unethically in the book of Job? / Snakes and ladders : levels of biblical law / Post-biblical perspectives. Family values in the Second Temple period / Ethical stance as an authorial issue in the Targums / Death and justice : shifting paradigms in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism / Robert P. Gordon. Diana Lipton. Andrew Mein. Janet Tollington. Ronald E. Clements. Hilary Marlow. John Barton. Graham Davies. Daniel J. Estes. Katharine J. Dell. Philip Jenson -- Charlotte Hempel. Carol A. Dray. Ed Noort.


Available electronically via the Internet.

9780567217097 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0567217094 (hardcover : alk. paper)


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


Ethics in the Bible.

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