Friendship and Virtue Ethics in the Book of Job

Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.

List of contents

1. Introduction to virtue ethics; 2. Friendship in Aristotle; 3. The ethics of reading: friendship in the Old Testament; 4. Friendship in the poetic dialogue; 5. Contrasting moral visions: the Joban prose tale; 6. Virtue and the good life: Job 29; 7. Tragic literature and the cultivation of character.

About the author

Patricia Vesely is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and teaches at the Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Summary

This book is for scholars and students of Bible, religion, philosophy, and ethics. It provides a new approach to the Book of Job that incorporates philosophy and ethics in its treatment of friendship, and it discusses such topics as tragedy and moral formation, narrative ethics, and virtue and human flourishing.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Vesely, VESELY PATRICIA
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108476478
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47647-8
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Religious ethics, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Old Testaments