Full Description
The purpose of Key Approaches to Biblical Ethics is to address fundamental as well as practical questions of methodology in examining the ethical material of the Bible. Sixteen scholars of international reputation, most of them leaders in the field of biblical ethics, discuss questions of biblical interpretation from the perspectives of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament ethics in close dialogue with one another. In the present volume both established and new approaches to biblical ethics are presented and discussed. The result is a volume of unprecedented scholarly interaction that provides key insights into issues of biblical ethics that play a significant role both for biblical interpretation as well as for methodological questions in Jewish and Christian ethics today.
Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Biblical Ethics: Foundational and Introductory Matters
Jacqueline N. Grey, Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn and Volker Rabens
part 1: How to Approach Ethics in the Bible: A Dialogue on the Fundamental Methodological Questions of Biblical Ethics
1 How to Read Biblical Texts Ethically: The New Method of "Implicit Ethics" for Analyzing Biblical Ethics
Ruben Zimmermann
2 Reading Biblical Texts Ethically: A Discussion of Ruben Zimmermann's Method of "Implicit Ethics" from an Old Testament Perspective
Markus Zehnder
3 Reading Biblical Texts Ethically: A Discussion of Ruben Zimmermann's Method of "Implicit Ethics" from a New Testament Perspective
Charles H. Cosgrove
4 Inspiring Ethics: A Hermeneutical Model for the Dialogue between Biblical Texts and Contemporary Ethics
Volker Rabens
part 2: Old Testament Approaches to Biblical Ethics
5 More than Worthwhile to Consider? Old Testament Ethics between Description and Prescription
Christian Frevel
6 The Moral Vision of the Hebrew Bible: An Examination of Some Methodological Issues
Eryl W. Davies
7 The Two Testaments as an Ethical Resource
John Goldingay
8 Virtue and Torah: The Character of the Instructed Reader
Richard S. Briggs
9 Key Approaches to Old Testament Ethics: A Response from a New Testament Scholar's Perspective
Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn
part 3: New Testament Approaches to Biblical Ethics
10 Is "Biblical Ethics" a "Genre Mistake"? Methodological Reflections on New Testament Ethics in Debate with Gustafson and Hays
Richard A. Burridge
11 The Moral Vision of the Bible: A New Testament Approach
David G. Horrell
12 Reading the New Testament from an Ethical Perspective: A Comprehensive Approach
Jan van der Watt
13 A New Testament Approach to (Biblical) Ethics from the Perspective of Language: Moods of Ethical Speech in NT Texts and Their Hermeneutical Relevance
Oda Wischmeyer
14 Key Approaches to New Testament Ethics: A Response from an Old Testament Scholar's Perspective
Jacqueline N. Grey
part 4: Biblical Ethics beyond Biblical Studies
15 Biblical Ethics beyond Biblical Studies: Scripture as Medicine in Early Christian Social Ethics
Brian J. Matz
16 The Limits of Biblical Ethics for Christian Ethics Today
David P. Gushee
Index
