Book cover for Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour by John Goldingay

Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour

2019 Released
288 Pages
4-6 Hours
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IVP AcademicISBN 9780830852246

What is ethics?Ethics is not merely about tricky situations or hot topics. Instead, ethics asks questions about what sort of people we are, how we think, what sort of things we do and don't do, and how we ought to live our everyday lives.How might we learn ethics from the Old Testament? Instead of searching for support for our positions or pointing out problems with certain passages, trusted guide John Goldingay urges us to let the Old Testament itself set the agenda. In thisvolume, readers will encounter what the Old Testament teaches about relationships, work, Sabbath, character, and more.Featuring Goldingay's own translation and discussion questions for group use, Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour is a resource forethics like no other. Topically organized with short, stand-alone chapters, this book is one to keep close at hand.

John Goldingay

John Goldingay (PhD, University of Nottingham) is senior professor of Old Testament and David Allan Hubbard Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is an ordained priest in the Church of England and is the author of numerous books, including a three-volume Old Testament Theology as well as major commentaries on Genesis, the Psalms, Isaiah 40-66, Daniel, and Hosea-Micah. Goldingay lives in Oxford, England.

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