Redescribing Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot A Triadic Comparison

World Kim argues that recent scholastic studies have overemphasized differences amongst various Second Temple texts and neglected the similarities between them. By employing four stages of comparison-description, juxtaposition, re-description, and rectification- Kim re-describes moral agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot, and aims to rectify the relationship between these texts. Kim demonstrates that moral agency cannot be described by categories such as affirmation or denial, and argues that such agency should instead be described in terms of degrees and shaped by various factors such as knowledge and desire, that will either decrease or increase moral agency. Through an extensive comparison of these texts, Kim concludes that the degree to which one internalizes and actualizes the teachings of their religious text increases one''s capacity for moral agency, and that this agency must be conceived as dynamic rather than static.>

About the author

World Kim is Director of Family Ministry and Discipleship at Rosebrook Presbyterian Church, USA.

Product details

• Authors: World Kim
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 15.05.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780567719591
• ISBN: 978-0-567-71959-1
• Pages: 192
• Dimensions (packing): 16.2 x 23.8 x 1.8 cm
• Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies
• Subjects: Desire, Sirach, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics, knowledge, Ancient / Biblical Israel, Judaism, Wisdom, Prayer, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, New Testament, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Ben Sira, texts, Revelation, Proverbs, moral agency; Comparative Methodology; knowledge; desire; wisdom; revelation; Proverbs; Raz Nihyeh; Vision of Hagu; Yetzer; prayer; Ben Sira; Sirach; 4QInstruction; Hodayot; Second Temple; texts; New Testament, Second Temple, comparative methodology, Raz Nihyeh, Hodayot, 4QInstruction, Yetzer, Vision of Hagu