Ethics and the Old Testament

From: Interpretation | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Ethics and the Old Testament, by John Barton. Trinity Press International, Harrisburg, 1998. 112 pp. $12.00 (paper). ISBN 1-56338-234-2.

BARTON HAS REFLECTED long and well upon ethics in the Old Testament and is among the foremost contributors to that discussion. In this offering he has written a direct, accessible, non-technical introduction to the question of Old Testament ethics, addressed to the general public. Barton's stance in this book is an invitation to people who have never thought about the matter of biblical ethics before, or who have thought about it and given up on it. The ...

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