Non-Retaliation in Early Jewish and New Testament Texts - Ethical Themes in Social Contexts

This study examines the varieties and continuities of ethical exhortations and ideals in the Jewish and Christian traditions (c. 200 BCE-100 CE) that fall under the rubric of non-retaliation. One of the principal conclusions of this thought-provoking work is that a critical factor in determining the shape of non-retaliatory ethics is whether the exhortation is applied to relations within the local and/or elect community or to relations with oppressors of the elect community. It becomes apparent also that the non-retaliatory ethic of the NT stands solidly in the tradition of non-retaliatory ethics in Early Judaism.>

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Gordon Zerbe

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• Authors: Gordon Zerbe, Zerbe Gordon
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9781474223805
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-2380-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Biblical Studies; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; The Library of Second Temple Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis