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- Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics
- Book
- 1998
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy
summary
Explores central questions in the history and theory of Jewish ethics, namely, the relationship between ethics and law, the relationship between ethics and theology, and the problems and prospects for constructing a contemporary Jewish ethic. Past Imperatives explores the nature and development of Jewish ethics by analyzing three important sets of issues: the relationship between Jewish law and ethics, the relationship between Jewish ethics and theology, and the problems and prospects for constructing a contemporary Jewish ethic. The penetrating and provocative essays are drawn from a number of fields, including legal theory, literary theory, and theory of religion. These studies illuminate many previously uninvestigated aspects of Jewish biomedical ethics, covenant theology, and textual interpretation in Judaism.
By exploring these issues within the larger context of historical and theoretical work in religious studies, Past Imperatives moves beyond previous work in Jewish ethics, which has largely sought to offer moral guidance from a Jewish perspective. This volume boldly confronts the fact that Judaism encompasses many, sometimes contradictory, ethical perspectives and investigates their theological underpinnings, how they have developed, and how they differ from other moral and/or religious perspectives.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part I. Ethics and Law
- Part II. Ethics and Theology
- Chapter 5. Jewish Theology and Bioethics
- pp. 101-115
- Part III. Methodological Issues in Contemporary Jewish Ethics
- References
- pp. 265-278
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438414645
MARC Record
OCLC
794701341
Pages
283
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No