Non-Retaliation in Early Jewish and New Testament Texts: Ethical Themes in Social Contexts

ISBN-13:	9781474223805
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/29/2015
Series:	The Library of Second Temple Studies , #5
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	338,256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

This study examines the varieties and continuities of ethical exhortations and ideals in the Jewish and Christian traditions (c. 200 BCE-100 CE) that fall under the rubric of non-retaliation. One of the principal conclusions of this thought-provoking work is that a critical factor in determining the shape of non-retaliatory ethics is whether the exhortation is applied to relations within the local and/or elect community or to relations with oppressors of the elect community. It becomes apparent also that the non-retaliatory ethic of the NT stands solidly in the tradition of non-retaliatory ethics in Early Judaism.