Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond

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Susan Niditch (Samuel Green Professor of Religion, Samuel Green Professor of Religion, Amherst College)

Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond

Susan Niditch (Samuel Green Professor of Religion, Samuel Green Professor of Religion, Amherst College)

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Oxford University Press Inc
23 January 2024

Religious ethics; Judaism: sacred texts; Judaism: theology

"In Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond, Susan Niditch takes soundings among those who have recently approached ethics in the Hebrew Scriptures, their methodological interests, their goals, and their definitions of ""ethics"" itself.

By means of close exegesis of specific passages from the Hebrew Bible and a discussion of the interpretation and application of these ancient texts by post-biblical Jewish writers and other creative contributors from outside the Jewish tradition, this volume explores topics in religious ethics, social justice, political ethics, economic ethics, issues in ecology, gender and sexuality, killing and dying, and reproductive ethics. Certain goals inform all chapters: interest in tracing recurring themes concerning the definition of the good, and the various ways in which Jewish thinkers rely on the more ancient material, interpret, and appropriate it; the links between areas in ethics, for example, between gender and reproductive ethics or war-views and attitudes to political ethics and environmental ethics. Niditch carves out specific biblical texts and themes in order to explore them in depth with special interest in the meanings and messages that emerge from ancient Israelite writers' varied treatments of issues in ethics. Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond provides a thoughtful discussion of biblical composers' treatment of ethical issues and an engaging overview of the ways in which these texts have been appropriated, in particular by Jewish contributors. This volume serves to challenge readers' own assumptions about biblical ethics, the applicability and the various meanings and messages that might be derived from engagement with key biblical texts."

By: Susan Niditch (Samuel Green Professor of Religion Samuel Green Professor of Religion Amherst College)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780197671979
ISBN 10: 0197671977
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 23 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Religious Ethics: Exploring a Complex Interplay in Israelite Tradition and Beyond 2. On Killing and Dying: The Case of Capital Punishment 3. ""Proclaim Peace"": Ethics of War in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond 4. A Study in Political Ethics: Resistance to Oppression or Collaboration 5. A Second Study in Political Ethics: On Forms of Leadership 6. Ethics of Gender and Sexuality: First Women of Creation, Interpretations and Appropriations 7. Reproductive Ethics: Maternal Fertility and Fetal Health 8. Economic Ethics 9. Environmental Ethics: Imaginings of Paradise and Dystopia Closing Thoughts Bibliography"

Susan Niditch is the Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College. She was educated at Harvard University, where her teachers, Albert Bates Lord, Frank Moore Cross, Paul D. Hanson, and Isadore Twersky, deeply influenced her scholarly interests and approaches. Her areas of research and teaching include the study of ancient Israelite literature from the perspectives of folklore and oral-traditional studies; biblical ethics with special interests in war, gender, and the body; the reception history of the Bible; and study of the rich symbolic media of biblical ritual texts. Her most recent books are The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods (Yale University Press, 2015) and Jonah: A Commentary (Hermeneia Series, 2022).

Reviews for Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond

"""Can we find ethical guidance in the Hebrew Bible in the midst of its stories about war, rape, enslavement, and heteronormativity? Susan Niditch, one of today's foremost scholars, offers a complex navigation that wrestles with the troubling aspects of biblical ethics, pointing to ambiguities in the language but also illuminating elements that inspire."" * Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College * ""A volume to be admired by both experts and lay readers! Susan Niditch brings brilliance and profound knowledge to bear on perennial ethical questions addressed in the Bible and grapples with troubling texts. She interweaves perspicacious analysis of current scholarship with trenchant readings of texts, and at her command is Jewish and Christian interpretation of Scripture, both classical and contemporary. This is the work of a lifetime's reflection on ethics."" * Pamela Barmash, author of The Laws of Hammurabi: At the Confluence of Royal and Scribal Tradition * Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * Choice *"