Non-Retaliation in Early Jewish and New Testament Texts

Ethical Themes in Social Contexts

• Author(s): Gordon Zerbe,
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Pages: 320
• ISBN_10: 1474230350
  ISBN_13: 9781474230353
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Biblical Studies / General ,

Description:... 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.