{"product_id":"ethics-and-the-old-testament-second-edition","title":"Ethics and the Old Testament Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eEstablishing the relevance of Old Testament ethics to contemporary life is, as John Barton concedes, an uphill task. For many Christians today - let alone those with no religious commitment - to find some way of accommodating them into a coherent moral system by which to live in this new century and millennium seems at best implausible and at worst ridiculous or even immoral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, Barton is convinced that in many aras of ethical enquiry the Old Testament has much to teach us. He looks again at the Ten Commandmens; the narrative about David and his children; the ethical issue of ecology; sexual morality and proprty; human morality as the express command of God; and the motivation for moral conduct. An additional chapter offers some fresh views about the value of Old Testament ethics in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the end of the book it is clear that although the Old Testament comes to us from a remote, alien and apparently unsophistocaled context, the powerful minds who worked on its books still have things to say which remain evocative and suggestive for our moral enquiries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Barton is Oriel and Lain Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. He is the author of many books, including The Spirit and the Letter, and he edited the Cambridge Companion to the Old Testament.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67650569240943,"sku":"9780334028949","price":228.32,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0334028949.jpg?v=1790933781","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/ethics-and-the-old-testament-second-edition","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}