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| Preface to Living as the People of God | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Structure for old Testament Ethics | |
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| The theological angle | |
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| God's identity | |
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| God's action | |
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| God's words | |
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| God's purpose | |
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| God's way | |
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| God's goodness | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The social angle | |
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| The social dimension of redemption | |
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| The distinctiveness of Israel | |
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| Israel as God's paradigm | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The economic angle | |
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| The land in Israel's story | |
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| The land as divine gift | |
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| The land under divine ownership | |
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| The land as covenantal measuring gauge | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Themes in old Testament Ethics | |
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| Ecology and the earth | |
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| God's earth: divine ownership | |
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| Our earth: divine gift and human responsibility | |
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| Cursed earth: human sin and ecological destruction | |
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| New creation: ecology and eschatology | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Economics and the poor | |
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| Economic ethics in creation perspective | |
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| Economics in a fallen world | |
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| Economic dimensions to Israel's story of redemption | |
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| Creation values restored in Israel's economic system | |
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| Responding to poverty | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The land and Christian ethics | |
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| Paradigmatic interpretation | |
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| Eschatological interpretation | |
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| Typological interpretation | |
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| The jubilee: a case study | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Politics and the nations | |
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| Perspectives from creation and the fall | |
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| God's people and the state: perspectives from Israel's history | |
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| God and the nations: Israel's universal vision | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Justice and righteousness | |
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| Justice as God displays it | |
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| Justice as God demands it | |
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| Justice as God will deliver it | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Law and the legal system | |
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| The main legal blocks | |
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| The different kinds of law | |
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| The administration of justice | |
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| Israel's scale of values | |
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| Theological reflections | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Culture and family | |
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| Rejection and prohibition | |
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| Qualified toleration | |
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| Critical affirmation: the family in the Old Testament | |
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| Christians and culture | |
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| Christians and the family | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The way of the individual | |
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| The individual in community | |
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| Personal responsibility | |
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| Models of morals | |
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| Failure and forgiveness | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Studying old Testament Ethics | |
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| A survey of historical approaches | |
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| The early church | |
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| The Reformation era | |
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| Some contemporary confessional approaches | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Contemporary scholarship: a bibliographical essay | |
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| Hermeneutics and authority in Old Testament ethics | |
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| Getting there from here: methodological problems | |
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| Getting back here from there: ideological problems | |
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| The question of authority | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Appendix: What about the Canaanites? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Scripture References | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |