What is ethics?Ethics is not merely about tricky situations or hot topics. Instead, ethics asks questions about what sort of people we are, how we think, what sort of things we do and don't do, and how we ought to live our everyday lives.How might we learn ethics from the Old Testament? Instead of searching for support for our positions or pointing out problems with certain passages, trusted guide John Goldingay urges us to let the Old Testament itself set the agenda. In this volume, readers will encounter what the Old Testament teaches about relationships, work, Sabbath, character, and more.Featuring Goldingay's own translation and discussion questions for group use, Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour is a resource for ethics like no other. Topically organized with short, stand-alone chapters, this book is one to keep close at hand.
Innehållsförteckning
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Qualities
1. Godlikeness
2. Compassion
3. Honor
4. Anger
5. Trust
6. Truthfulness
7. Forthrightness
8. Contentment
Part Two: Aspects of Life
9. Mind and Heart
10. Wealth
11. Violence
12. Shalom
13. Justice
14. Reparation
15. Sabbath
16. Animals
17. Work
Part Three: Relationships
18. Friends
19. Neighbors
20. Women
21. Good Husbands, Good Wives
22. Who You Can’t Have Sex With
23. People Who Can’t Undertake a Regular Marriage
24. Parents and Children
25. Nations
26. Migrants
27. Cities
28. Leaders
Part Four: Texts
29. Genesis 1: In the Beginning
30. Genesis 2: To Put It Another Way
31. Leviticus 25: Sabbaths for the Land and the Jubilee
32. Deuteronomy 15: When a Family’s Life Falls Apart
33. Deuteronomy 20: How (Not) to Make War
34. Ruth: Commitment
35. Psalm 72: The Exercise of Authority with Faithfulness
36. The Song of Songs: Sex
Part Five: People
37. Abraham
38. Sarah and Hagar
39. Joseph
40. Shiphrah and Puah, Yokebed and Miryam
41. David
42. Nehemiah
43. Vashti, Esther, and Mordecai
Conclusion
Postscript: But What About the Canaanites?
Subject List
Scripture Index
Om författaren
John Goldingay is David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. His books include his three-volume Old Testament Theology and commentaries on Psalms, Isaiah and Daniel.
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