Semeia 66: Ethics and Politics in the Hebrew Bible
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“The focus falls instead on the usefulness of the biblical material for contemporary moral decision-making.” (Page 3)
“Obedience to the declared will of God is probably the strongest model for ethical obligation in most of the books of the Hebrew Scriptures.” (Page 13)
“ethics is obedience to God, and whatever norms are to be found in the Bible should be appropriated (by us) on that basis” (Page 14)
“ethics it is normally taken to be a constructive operation” (Page 1)
- John Barton
- Bruce C. Birch
- Frank Crüsemann
- Eryl W. Davies
- Frank S. Frick
- Peter J. Haas
- Douglas A. Knight
- Niels Peter Lemche
- Eckart Otto
- Peter J. Paris
- Hannelis Schulte
- Robert R. Wilson
- Title: Semeia 66: Ethics and Politics in the Hebrew Bible
- Editors: Douglas A. Knight and Carol Myers
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1995
- Pages: 179
Douglas A. Knight is Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School of Vanderbilt University. He is the general editor of the Library of Ancient Israel.
