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Justice for all : how the Jewish Bible revolutionized ethics / Jeremiah Unterman.

by Unterman, Jeremiah, author.

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Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society ; Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2017.

Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Ethics in the Bible.

Jewish ethics -- Biblical teaching.

JPS essential Judaism series.

xxvi, 292 pages ; 24 cm.

1. The Jewish Bible's unique understanding of God: the ethical relationship of God to the world and humanity -- 2. The revelation at Sinai: ethical implications of the God-Israel relationship -- 3. Providing for the disadvantaged: the stranger, the poor, the widow, and the orphan (with a note on slavery) -- 4. The primacy of morality over ritual: a prophetic innovation -- 5. The requirement of "Return": the development of repentance from Torah to prophecy (with a note on theodicy) -- 6. The establishment of hope: the prophetic promise of redemption.

"Demonstrates how the Jewish Bible radically changed the course of ethical thought and as a result has had enormous influence on later Jewish thought and law, as well as on Christianity and the development of modern Western civilization"--

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