Immoral Bible: approaches to Biblical ethics
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 …
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- Full title :Immoral Bible : approaches to Biblical ethics / Eryl W. Davies.
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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.
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- Publication Date:2010.
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- Publisher(s):T&T Clarck
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (183 p.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1282821571, 9781282821576, 9786612821578, 6612821574
- oclc:on1162215954
- LC Classification:BS680.E84
- Dewey Decimal:221.6
Table of 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
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