James Nati reviews Barton’s Ethics in Ancient Israel: “Barton’s work is thus meant not at offering clarity for believers as they try to live more “biblically,” but rather to argue that ancient Israelite thinkers deserve a seat at the table among other ethical thinkers throughout history.”
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Judgement of Solomon by Antoine Sallaert in Stedelijke Administratie Roeselare. Public Domain.
Judgement of Solomon by Antoine Sallaert in Stedelijke Administratie Roeselare. Public Domain.
James Nati (“Solomon, the Septuagint, and Second Temple Studies”) illustrates how crossing generic and canonical boundaries—in his case study, reading Ben Sira and the Septuagint side by side—can reveal new insights about how early Jewish traditions developed.
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