Research Catalog

Title

Ethics and politics in the Hebrew Bible / guest editor, Douglas A. Knight.

Publication

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Knight, Douglas A.

Description

179 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Semeia ; 66

Uniform Title

Semeia ; 66.

Subjects

• Politics in the Bible
• Ethics in the Bible
• Bible > Old Testament

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

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. Perspective / Johannes Beutler -- A response from a literary perspective / Mary Ann Tolbert.

Call Number

*PDN 80-136 v. 66

OCLC

33338817

Title

Ethics and politics in the Hebrew Bible / guest editor, Douglas A. Knight.

Imprint

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1995.

Series

Semeia ; 66

Semeia ; 66.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographies.

Added Author

Knight, Douglas A.

Research Call Number

*PDN 80-136 v. 66