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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 | |