Psalmody and Poetry in Old Testament Ethics

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Questions arise from scholarly debate in Hebrew Bible ethics such as: what is Old Testament ethics?, what is the object of study?, what are the methods involved and how normative are Old Testament ethics for modern contexts? These questions advance crucial issues in the quest for understanding ethics of the ancient Hebrew mind and the problem of how to contextualize them in modern contexts.This book begins by exploring the relationship between the Old Testament and Ethics, as well as a philosophical discussion on meta-ethical presuppositions on divinity and morality in the Psalter. The main part of the book reflects analyses of specific psalms (Pss 16; 34; 50; 72; 104; and 133). The core of this section reflects an illustration of psalm texts with the thematic focus on Hebrew ethical thinking. Included are a few contextual contributions discussing relevant ethical issues in Africa from an African perspective. In the final section two exemplary poetic texts from the Pentateuch (Deut 32) and the Prophets (Jer 5) reverberate ethical thinking from other parts of the Hebrew canon.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-03-13
Mått:156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt:322 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780567223906

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Professor Dirk J. Human is Head of Biblical and Religious Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Recensioner i media

Psalmody and Poetry in Old Testament Ethics is the result of a 2008 Project Psalms seminar at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, an international interdisciplinary working group bringing together psalms and poetic texts scholars. Per the title, the theme around which this volume’s contributions cluster is ethics. Attentive to the historical and sociologically formed worlds behind the text and aware of the place of the reader, this volume seeks to further the scholarly understanding of an ethics of the ancient Hebrew mind as well as contextualize contemporary African ethical issues.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAbbreviationsList of Contributors Part I - Introduction1. Eckart Otto (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany)"Hebrew Ethics in Old Testament Scholarship"2. Jaco W Gericke (Northwest University, Vaal Triangle Campus, RSA)"What is Good? Meta-Ethical Assumptions in the Psalms Concerning the Relation between Divinity and Morality" Part II - Psalmody 3. Alphonso Groenewald (University of Pretoria, RSA)"The Ethical "Way" of Psalm 16" 4. Phil J Botha (University of Pretoria, RSA)"Psalm 34 and the Ethics of the Editors of the Psalter" 5. Theodor Seidl (University of Wurzburg, Germany; Research Associate, University of Pretoria)"Who Stands Behind the raµa<< in Psalm 50:16a? The Ethical Testimony of Psalm 50:16-22" 6.Andrew Mein (Westcott House, Cambridge, UK)"The King's Justice? Early Modern Perspectives on the Ethics of Psalm 72" 7. Johan Coetzee (University of Johannesburg, RSA)"Bodily Interpretation of Psalm 104: "Yahweh's History" and Human Ethics" 8. Liswaniso Kamuwanga (University of Pretoria, RSA)"Ethics and Justice in an African Society"9. Emannuel O Usue (University of Pretoria and Benue State University Makurdi, igeria)"Ethical and Theological Parallels Between Biblical Psalms and The NKST Indigenous Christian Songs" 10. Samuel Ndoga (Baptist Theological College, Johannesburg, RSA)"Psalm 133 as a Response to Xenophobic Attitudes in South Africa Today" Part III - Poetry in Pentateuch and Prophets 11. Eckart Otto (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany)"Singing Moses: His Farewell Song in Deuteronomy 32"12. Willie Wessels (University of South Africa, Pretoria, RSA)"Prophet and Ethics: a Study of Jeremiah 5:26-29" Index of ReferencesIndex of Authors