'Justice and righteousness' in ancient Israel against the backgrount of "Social reforms" in the ancient Near East
Author: Moshe Weinfeld
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Published: 1982
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Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East
Author: Moshe Weinfeld
Publisher: Hebrew University Magnes Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fascinating and informative work, Weinfeld investigates the ideal of justice in relation to social reforms promoted by Israelite monarchy, the implications of the ideal in individual life, and the theological implications of all aspects of the concept.
War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East
Author: C. L. Crouch
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-01-13
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 311022352X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. It argues that a common cosmological and ideological outlook generated similarities in ethical thinking. In all three societies, the mythological traditions surrounding creation reflect a strong connection between war, kingship and the establishment of order. Human kings’ military activities are legitimated through their identification with this cosmic struggle against chaos, begun by the divine king at creation. Military violence is thereby cast not only as morally tolerable but as morally imperative. Deviations from this point of view reflect two phenomena: the preservation of variable social perspectives and the impact of historical changes on ethical thinking. The research begins the discussion of ancient Near Eastern ethics outside of Israel and Judah and fills a scholarly void by placing Israelite and Judahite ethics within this context, as well as contributing methodologically to future research in historical and comparative ethics.
Debt-Slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East
Author: Gregory C. Chirichigno
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1993-06-01
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9781850753599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original study concerns itself with the manumission laws of Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 15 and Leviticus 25. It begins with the social background to debt slavery and the socioeconomic factors encouraging the rise of debt slavery in Mesopotamia. After a comparative analysis of the Mesopotamian and biblical material Chirichigno examines the social background to debt slavery in Israel, the various slave laws in the Pentateuch (in order to delimit the chattel-slave laws from the debt-slave laws), and the biblical manumission laws themselves.
Yahweh is Exalted in Justice
Author: Thomas L. Leclerc
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781451419115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the diverse perspectives of justice in the Book of Isaiah's treatment of Yahweh, the "God of justice."
Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East
Author: Daniel Snell
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9004494057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFreedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian history. He next examines what elites said about flight and freedom in edicts, legal collections, and treaties. He devotes a chapter to flight in literature and story. He studies freedom in Israel by looking at Biblical terminology and then practice in narratives and legal collections. In a final chapter Snell traces the descent of ideas about freedom among Jews, Greeks and Christians, and Muslims, concluding that the devotion to freedom may be nearly a human universal.
Debt-slavery in Israel and the Ancient Near East
Author: Gregory Chirichigno
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1850753598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original study concerns itself with the manumission laws of Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 15 and Leviticus 25. It begins with the social background to debt slavery and the socioeconomic factors encouraging the rise of debt slavery in Mesopotamia. After a comparative analysis of the Mesopotamian and biblical material Chirichigno examines the social background to debt slavery in Israel, the various slave laws in the Pentateuch (in order to delimit the chattel-slave laws from the debt-slave laws), and the biblical manumission laws themselves.
Ex Auditu - Volume 22
Author: Klyne Snodgrass
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1498232612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSefer Moshe: The Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume
Author: Chaim Cohen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2004-06-23
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 157506541X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoshe Weinfeld’s contributions to the study of the Bible and its literature, as well as the social and political situation of the Bible in its ancient Near Eastern context, are well known. In this volume, 35 colleagues and students contribute essays organized according to four subjects: (1) Exegetical and Literary Studies on the Bible; (2) Studies on Biblical Hebrew, History, and Geography; (3) Ancient Near Eastern and Amarna Studies; and (4) Studies on Qumran, Post biblical Judaism, and the Jewish Medieval Commentaries. A bibliography and biography of the honoree round out the volume.
Righteousness in the Book of Proverbs
Author: Sun Myung Lyu
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9783161498725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study brings insights from character ethics in addition to the much discussed biblical scholarship on social justice in order to elucidate the concept of righteousness present in the book of Proverbs. The author’s choice of Proverbs as a wisdom text in relation to the concept of righteousness reflects the realization that previous scholarship has not dealt with righteousness as a concept in its own right but as a corollary to the issue of social justice. Like character ethics, Proverbs use its depiction of the righteous person as its prominent pedagogic device of moral discourse. In other words, instead of offering abstract statements about morality, Sun Myung Lyu portrays the life of the righteous person as the paradigm of moral life, which is pregnant with numerous realizations into specific actions befitting diverse life situations. What the righteous person embodies is righteousness, the character in toto , which encompasses yet transcends specific virtues and actions. After presenting a comparative study of Proverbs with the Psalms and the ancient Egyptian wisdom texts, the author concludes that despite many similarities and parallels, Proverbs still stands out in its strong emphasis on character formation and internalization of virtues as foundations of morality in general and righteousness in particular.
