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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453683603321

Titolo

The Bible in ethics [[electronic resource] ] : the Second Sheffield Colloquium / / edited by John W. Rogerson, Margaret Davies & M. Daniel Carroll R

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England, : Sheffield Academic Press, c1995

ISBN

1-281-81371-0

9786611813710

0-567-57616-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 207

Altri autori (Persone)

RogersonJ. W <1935-> (John William)

DaviesMargaret <1941->

Carroll RM. Daniel

Disciplina

241

Soggetti

Ethics in the Bible

Ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the international colloquium held in the Dept. of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, Apr. 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Discourse Ethics and Biblical Ethics; From Law to Virtue and Back Again: On Veritatis Splendor; Ideology, Theology and Sociology: from Kautsky to Meeks; Reading for Life: The Use of the Bible in Ethics and the Work of Martha C. Nussbaum; Ethics as Deconstruction, and, The Ethics of Deconstruction; Theological Education as a Theory-Praxis Loop: Situating the Book of Joshua in a Cultural, Social Ethical, and Theological Matrix; Divine Character and the Formation of Moral Community in the Book of Exodus

Nationalism and the Hebrew BibleEthics and the Old Testament; And the Dumb Do Speak: Articulating Incipient Readings of the Bible in Marginalized Communities; The Bible and the Religious Identity of the Maya of Guatemala at the Conquest and Today: Considerations and Challenges for the Nonindigenous; 'The Gospel, the Poor and the Churches': Attitudes to Poverty in the British Churches and Biblical



Exegesis; The New Testament and the Ethics of Cultural Compromise: Compromiso with the God of Life or Compromise with the Ideology of Power?; The Ethics of Biblical Violence against Women

Sex and Gender Ethics as New Testament Ethics'You shall Open your Hand to your Needy Brother': Ideology and Moral Formation in Deut. 15.1-18; Work and Slavery in the New Testament: Impoverishments of Traditions; How the Spirit Reads and How to Read the Spirit; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

The Bible has influenced contemporary culture both positively and negatively. The present volume is a collection of papers that were discussed at an international colloquium on the use of the Bible in Ethics in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield in April 1995. Participants came from many parts of the world and from different backgrounds, and the papers reflect their varied interests and the contexts in which they work. The contributors, in addition to the three editors, are John Barton, Bruce Birch, Mark Brett, Mark Chapman, David Clines, Philip Davies, Cheryl Ex