The Ten Commandments - The Reciprocity of Faithfulness

Informationen zum Autor William P. Brown is Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur! Georgia. He is the author a number of books including Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament and Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor. Klappentext Offering a host of classic and new essays surveying the scholarly ethical and biblical debate surrounding the Ten Commandments, William Brown organizes his volume into three parts: the history of interpretation, contemporary reflections on the Decalogue as a whole, and contemporary reflections on individual commandments. A useful addition to ethics as well as Old Testament and Hebrew Bible courses, Brown's The Ten Commandments will be a standard reference for all Decalogue research, as it facilitates a helpful balance between moral, theological, and biblical study.The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.

Product details

• Authors: William P. (EDT) Brown
• Assisted by: William P. Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Presbyterian publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9780664223236
• ISBN: 978-0-664-22323-6
• No. of pages: 349
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Library of Theological Ethics; Library of Theological Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works