Key Approaches to Biblical Ethics

An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44573-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 189, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

The purpose of Key Approaches to Biblical Ethics is to address fundamental as well as practical questions of methodology in examining the ethical material of the Bible. Sixteen scholars of international reputation, most of them leaders in the field of biblical ethics, discuss questions of biblical interpretation from the perspectives of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament ethics in close dialogue with one another. In the present volume both established and new approaches to biblical ethics are presented and discussed. The result is a volume of unprecedented scholarly interaction that provides key insights into issues of biblical ethics that play a significant role both for biblical interpretation as well as for methodological questions in Jewish and Christian ethics today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rabens, Volker

Grey, Jacqueline

Kamell Kovalishyn, Mariam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Biblical Ethics: Foundational and Introductory Matters

Jacqueline N. Grey, Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn and Volker Rabens

part 1: How to Approach Ethics in the Bible: A Dialogue on the Fundamental Methodological Questions of Biblical Ethics

1 How to Read Biblical Texts Ethically: The New Method of “Implicit Ethics” for Analyzing Biblical Ethics

Ruben Zimmermann

2 Reading Biblical Texts Ethically: A Discussion of Ruben Zimmermann’s Method of “Implicit Ethics” from an Old Testament Perspective

Markus Zehnder

3 Reading Biblical Texts Ethically: A Discussion of Ruben Zimmermann’s Method of “Implicit Ethics” from a New Testament Perspective

Charles H. Cosgrove

4 Inspiring Ethics: A Hermeneutical Model for the Dialogue between Biblical Texts and Contemporary Ethics

Volker Rabens

part 2: Old Testament Approaches to Biblical Ethics

5 More than Worthwhile to Consider? Old Testament Ethics between Description and Prescription

Christian Frevel

6 The Moral Vision of the Hebrew Bible: An Examination of Some Methodological Issues

Eryl W. Davies

7 The Two Testaments as an Ethical Resource

John Goldingay

8 Virtue and Torah: The Character of the Instructed Reader

Richard S. Briggs

9 Key Approaches to Old Testament Ethics: A Response from a New Testament Scholar’s Perspective

Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn

part 3: New Testament Approaches to Biblical Ethics

10 Is “Biblical Ethics” a “Genre Mistake”? Methodological Reflections on New Testament Ethics in Debate with Gustafson and Hays

Richard A. Burridge

11 The Moral Vision of the Bible: A New Testament Approach

David G. Horrell

12 Reading the New Testament from an Ethical Perspective: A Comprehensive Approach

Jan van der Watt

13 A New Testament Approach to (Biblical) Ethics from the Perspective of Language: Moods of Ethical Speech in NT Texts and Their Hermeneutical Relevance

Oda Wischmeyer

14 Key Approaches to New Testament Ethics: A Response from an Old Testament Scholar’s Perspective

Jacqueline N. Grey

part 4: Biblical Ethics beyond Biblical Studies

15 Biblical Ethics beyond Biblical Studies: Scripture as Medicine in Early Christian Social Ethics

Brian J. Matz

16 The Limits of Biblical Ethics for Christian Ethics Today

David P. Gushee

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Volker Rabens, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Biblical Theology at the YMCA University of Applied Sciences, Kassel (Germany), and Research Fellow at North-West University, Potchefstroom (South Africa). His publications include The Holy Spirit and Ethics in Paul: Transformation and Empowering for Religious-Ethical Life (Mohr Siebeck, 2013, 2nd ed.; Fortress, 2014).

Jacqueline N. Grey, Ph.D. (2006), is Dean of Theology and Professor of Biblical Studies at Alphacrucis College, Sydney (Australia), and Research Fellow at UNISA, Pretoria (South Africa). Her publications include Three’s A Crowd: Pentecostalism, Hermeneutics and the Old Testament (Pickwick, 2011).

Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn, Ph.D. (2010), is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Regent College, Vancouver (Canada). She is co-author of the James Zondervan Exegetical Commentary (Zondervan, 2008), and has published a large number of journal articles and book essays.