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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 anonymo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barton, John, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Ethics > Israel > History > To 1500.
Jewish ethics.
Ethics in the Bible.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ethics in Ancient Israel--A Historical Enquiry
  • 1. The Sources
  • 2. Moral Agents and Moral Patients
  • 3. Popular Morality, Custom, and Convention
  • 4. The Moral Order
  • 5. Obedience to God
  • 6. Virtue, Character, Moral Formation, and the Ends of Life
  • 7. Sins, Impurity, and Forgiveness
  • 8. The Consequences of Action
  • 9. Ethical Digests
  • 10. The Moral Character of God
  • Conclusion: God and Moral Order in Ancient Israel.