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Informationen zum Autor C. L Crouch is the David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East (2009), The Making of Israel (2014), Israel and the Assyrians (2014), An Introduction to the Study of Jeremiah (2017), and, with J. M. Hutton, Translating Empire (2019). Zusammenfassung Drawing connections between ancient and contemporary ethical problems, this Companion addresses a variety of topics, including student loan debt, criminal justice reform, ethnicity and inclusion, family systems, and military violence. It is important reading for a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses in ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Legal Ethics: 1. The decalogue: an icon of ethical discourse Dominik Markl; 2. The Talionic principle and its calibrations Sandra Jacobs; 3. Community violence in Deutoronomy Caryn Reeder; 4. The construction of gender roles in the Book of the Covenant and in Deutoronomy Carolyn J. Pressler; 5. Economics and the law Albino Barrera; Part II. Narrative Ethics: 6. Creation ethics in Genesis Matthew Schlimm; 7. Migrant ethics in the Jacob narratives C. A. Strine; 8. Settler mandates and the Book of Joshua Mark Brett; 9. David's ethic of togetherness and its victims Richard Smith; 10. Ethics and ethnicity in the Deutoronomistic history Brian Rainey; Part III. Prophetic Ethics: 11. Religion and ethics in Isaiah Bohdan Hrobon; 12. Covenant in the Book of Jeremiah Else K. Holt; 13. Ezekiel and criminal justice reform C. L. Crouch; 14. Poverty and social justice in Micah Matthew Coomber; 15. War violence in Hosea, Amos, and Nahum Stacy Davis; Part IV. Wisdom/Poetic Ethics: 16. Teaching complex ethical thinking with Proverbs Anne W. Stewart; 17. Divine justice in the Book of Job C. -L Seow; 18. Justice and retribution in the Psalms Tarah Van De Wiele; Part V. Faithful Ethics: 19. Jewish ethics and the Hebrew bible Deborah Barer; 20. Christian ethics and the Hebrew bible Julián Andrés González Holguín....
