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Ethics and politics in the Hebrew Bible / guest editor, Douglas A. Knight ; board editor, Carol Meyers.

Contributor(s): Knight, Douglas A, 1943- | Meyers, Carol
Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia : an experimental journal for biblical criticism: 66.Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: iv, 179 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Ethics in the Bible | Politics in the Bible | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etcBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction : ethics, ancient Israel, and the Hebrew Bible / Douglas A. Knight -- The basis of ethics in the Hebrew Bible / John Barton -- Moral agency, community, and the character of God in the Hebrew Bible / Bruce C. Birch -- Ethics of the Hebrew Bible : the problem of methodology / Eryl W. Davies -- Sources and methods in the study of ancient Israelite ethics / Robert R. Wilson --
Dominion, guilt and reconciliation : the contribution of the Jacob narrative in Genesis to political ethics / Frank Crüsemann -- Cui Bono? - History in the service of political nationalism : the Deuteronomistic history as political propaganda / Frank S. Frick -- Political rights and powers in monarchic Israel / Douglas A. Knight -- Kings and clients : on loyalty between the ruler and the ruled in ancient "Israel" / Niels Peter Lemche -- The end of the Omride Dynasty : social-ethical observations on the subject of power and violence / Hannelis Schulte --
The quest for Hebrew Bible ethics : a Jewish response / Peter J. Haas -- Of aims and methods in Hebrew Bible ethics / Eckart Otto -- An ethicist's concerns about Biblical ethics / Peter J. Paris.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : ethics, ancient Israel, and the Hebrew Bible / Douglas A. Knight -- The basis of ethics in the Hebrew Bible / John Barton -- Moral agency, community, and the character of God in the Hebrew Bible / Bruce C. Birch -- Ethics of the Hebrew Bible : the problem of methodology / Eryl W. Davies -- Sources and methods in the study of ancient Israelite ethics / Robert R. Wilson --

Dominion, guilt and reconciliation : the contribution of the Jacob narrative in Genesis to political ethics / Frank Crüsemann -- Cui Bono? - History in the service of political nationalism : the Deuteronomistic history as political propaganda / Frank S. Frick -- Political rights and powers in monarchic Israel / Douglas A. Knight -- Kings and clients : on loyalty between the ruler and the ruled in ancient "Israel" / Niels Peter Lemche -- The end of the Omride Dynasty : social-ethical observations on the subject of power and violence / Hannelis Schulte --

The quest for Hebrew Bible ethics : a Jewish response / Peter J. Haas -- Of aims and methods in Hebrew Bible ethics / Eckart Otto -- An ethicist's concerns about Biblical ethics / Peter J. Paris.

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