vol. 35, Issue #3

Online Journal Article "New Approaches To Old Testament Ethics" By Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.* Jets 35/3 (September 1992) 289-297

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/35/35-3/JETS_35-3_289-297_Kaiser.pdf

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NEW APPROACHES TO OLD TESTAMENT ETHICS
WALTER C. KAISER, JR.*
JETS 35/3 (September 1992) 289-297

Excerpt:
More than fifteen years ago R. E. Clements asserted that "the subject
of Old Testament ethics has proved to be a most difficult one to deal
with.... The literature devoted to it has been surprisingly sparse.... It
has been difficult to avoid the merely superficial." Until quite recently my
own work has been the single complete English contribution in the twentieth century.
The only other major treatments of the subject were the German volume by
Johannes Hempel and the English survey by Hinckley G. Mitchell.
Even if one were to add key chapters in the Biblical theologies of the
OT, collections of essays in Festschriften, and all the articles in the major
journals over the past thirty years, the total output in the area of OT ethics
would not be much over 175 items. Surely this is not an impressive
showing given the critical importance of the topic for our contemporary
culture.
--from the first page of the article