Katharine Dell is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University and Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Oxford.

[This book is] welcomed as another fresh signal that the subject matter of biblical ethics is enjoying a fresh comeback. It is hoped that these essays will spark many others to join the conversation.

• AbbreviationsList of ContributorsList of Previous WorksPrefaceIntroduction:  Katharine J. Dell PART 1:  Old Testament Texts and Genres The Ethics of Eden:  Truth-Telling in Genesis 2-3:  Robert P. GordonDesire for ethics or the ethics of desire: Diana LiptonPsalm 101 and the ethics of kingship: Andrew MeinThe ethics of warfare and the holy war tradition: Janet TollingtonProphecy, Ethics and the Divine Anger: Ronald E. ClementsJustice for Whom?  Social and Environmental Ethics and the Hebrew Prophets:  Hilary MarlowThe ‘dark side' of God in the Old Testament: John BartonThe ethics of friendship in wisdom literature: Graham I. DaviesWhat makes the Strange woman of Proverbs 1-9 strange?: Daniel J. EstesDoes God behave unethically in the book of Job?: Katharine J. DellSnakes and Ladders: Weighing and ordering biblical law: Philip JensonPART 2: Post-biblical Perspectives Family Values in the Second Temple Period: Charlotte HempelEthical issues in the authorial intentions of the Targumists: †Carol DrayDeath and Justice: Shifting Paradigms in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism: Ed Noort