The Cambridge Companion To The Hebrew Bible And Ethics
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Author | : C. L. Crouch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 1108473431 |
Balances historical and contemporary concerns in an engaging and informative way, drawing connections between ancient and contemporary ethical problems.
Author | : Stephen B. Chapman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2016-07-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1316577961 |
This Companion offers a concise and engaging introduction to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Providing an up-to-date 'snapshot' of scholarship, it includes essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by twenty-three leading scholars. The volume examines a range of topics, including the historical and religious contexts for the contents of the biblical canon, and critical approaches and methods, as well as newer topics such as the Hebrew Bible in Islam, Western art and literature, and contemporary politics. This Companion is an excellent resource for students at university and graduate level, as well as for laypeople and scholars in other fields who would like to gain an understanding of the current state of the academic discussion. The book does not presume prior knowledge, nor does it engage in highly technical discussions, but it does go into greater detail than a typical introductory textbook.
Author | : C. L. Crouch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108630359 |
The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics offers an engaging and informative response to a wide range of ethical issues. Drawing connections between ancient and contemporary ethical problems, the essays address a variety of topics, including student loan debt, criminal justice reform, ethnicity and inclusion, family systems, and military violence. The volume emphasizes the contextual nature of ethical reflection, stressing the importance of historical knowledge and understanding in illuminating the concerns, the logic, and the intentions of the biblical texts. Twenty essays, all specially commissioned for this volume, address the texts' historical and literary contexts and identify key social, political, and cultural factors affecting their ethical ideas. They also explore how these texts can contribute to contemporary ethical discussions. The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics is suitable for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in liberal arts colleges and universities, as well as seminaries.
Author | : Bruce Wells |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2024-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108658679 |
Author | : Steven Kepnes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108244157 |
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology offers an overview of Jewish theology, an aspect of Judaism that is equal in importance to law and ethics. Covering the period from antiquity to the present, the volume focuses on what Jews believe about God and also about the relation of God to humans and the world. Parts I and II cover exciting new research in Jewish biblical and rabbinic theology, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah (mysticism), and liturgy. Parts III and IV turn to modern theology with an exploration of works by leading figures, such as Rabbi Abraham I. Kook, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the relation of theology to issues such as feminism and the Holocaust, and the relation of Judaism to other world religions. In Part V, the book explores how the insights of analytic philosophy have been integrated with Jewish theology.
Author | : Bill T. Arnold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2022-05-12 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 1108423752 |
Essays explaining diverse methods and reading strategies, providing a dependable guide to understanding the Book of Genesis.
Author | : Robin Gill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107000076 |
Twenty essays providing an authoritative introduction to Christian ethics, addressing issues such as war, social justice, ecology, sexuality and medicine.
Author | : Katherine J. Dell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 110848316X |
An essential guide to wisdom texts, and the major changes in the approach to different biblical and non-biblical wisdom books.
Author | : John Barton |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2014-11-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191635995 |
Ethics in Ancient Israel is a study of ethical thinking in ancient Israel from around the eighth to the second century BC. The evidence for this consists primarily of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha, but also other ancient Jewish writings such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and various anonymous and pseudonymous texts from shortly before the New Testament period. Professor John Barton argues that there were several models for thinking about ethics, including a 'divine command' theory, something approximating to natural law, a virtue ethic, and a belief in human custom and convention. Moreover, he examines ideas of reward and punishment, purity and impurity, the status of moral agents and patients, imitation of God, and the image of God in humanity. Barton maintains that ethical thinking can be found not only in laws but also in the wisdom literature, in the Psalms, and in narrative texts. There is much interaction with recent scholarship in both English and German. The book features discussion of comparative material from other ancient Near Eastern cultures and a chapter on short summaries of moral teaching, such as the Ten Commandments. This innovative work should be of interest to those concerned with the interpretation of the Old Testament but also to students of ethics.
Author | : Kenneth Seeskin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2005-09-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139826921 |
One aim of this series is to dispel the intimidation readers feel when faced with the work of difficult and challenging thinkers. Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides (1138–1204), represents the high point of Jewish rationalism in the middle ages. He played a pivotal role in the transition of philosophy from the Islamic East to the Christian West. His greatest philosophical work, The Guide of the Perplexed, had a decisive impact on all subsequent Jewish thought and is still the subject of intense scholarly debate. An enigmatic figure, Maimonides continues to defy simple attempts at classification. The twelve essays in this volume offer a lucid and comprehensive treatment of his life and thought. They cover the sources on which Maimonides drew, his contributions to philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, and Bible commentary, as well as his esoteric writing style and influence on later thinkers.