Ethical and unethical in the Old Testament
Subtitle: God and humans in dialogue
By: edited by Katharine J. Dell.
Contributors: Dell, Katharine J. 1961-
Series: The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- #528
Publisher: T & T Clark International
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780567217097
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Ethics in the Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Katharine J. Dell; title: Part I: Old Testament texts and genres; title: The ethics of Eden : truth-telling in Genesis 2-3 / Robert P. Gordon; title: Desire for ethics or the ethics of desire / Diana Lipton; title: Psalm 101 and the ethics of kingship / Andrew Mein; title: The ethics of warfare and the holy war tradition / Janet Tollington; title: Prophecy, ethics, and the divine anger / Ronald E. Clements; title: Justice for whom? : social and environmental ethics and the Hebrew prophets / Hilary Marlow; title: The dark side of God in the Old Testament / John Barton; title: The ethics of friendship in Wisdom Literature / Graham I. Davies; title: What makes the strange woman of Proverbs 1-9 strange? / Daniel J. Estes; title: Does God behave unethically in the book of Job? / Katharine J. Dell; title: Snakes and ladders : weighing and ordering biblical law / Philip Jenson; title: Part II: Post-biblical perspectives; title: Family values in the Second Temple period / Charlotte Hempel; title: Ethical issues in the authorial intentions of the Targumists / Carol Dray; title: Death and justice : shifting paradigms in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism / Ed Noort.