| Description |
1 online resource (183 pages) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Immoral Bible; Chapter 2 The Evolutionary Approach; Chapter 3 The Cultural Relativists' Approach; Chapter 4 Canonical Approaches; Chapter 5 The Paradigmatic Approach; Chapter 6 The Reader-response Approach; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Subjects; Index of Modern Authors |
| Summary |
In this work Eryl W. Davies sums up a career's worth of in-depth reflection on the thorny issue of biblical ethics examining the bible's, at times problematic, stance upon slavery, polygamy and perhaps its most troublesome aspect, the sanctioning of violence and warfare. This is most pertinent in respect to Joshua 6-11 a text which lauds the 'holy war' of the Israelites, anihiliting the native inhabitants of Canaan, and a text which has been used to legitimise the actions of white colonists in North America, the Boers in South Africa and right-wing Zionists in modern Israel. Davies begins wi |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethics in the Bible.
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Ethics in the Bible.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780567601483 |
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056760148X |
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