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

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

in Library of Second Temple Studies

by Gordon Zerbe

Pages 320
Publisher T&T Clark
Published 2015
ISBN-13 9781474223805
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.

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