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Past Imperatives

Name: Past Imperatives
Author: Louis E. Newman
ISBN: 9780791438671

by Louis E. Newman

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Past Imperatives explores the nature and development of Jewish ethics by analyzing three important sets of issues: the relationship between Jewish law and ethics, the relationship between Jewish ethics and theology, and the problems and prospects for constructing a contemporary Jewish ethic. The penetrating and provocative essays are drawn from a number of fields, including legal theory, literary theory, and theory of religion. These studies illuminate many previously uninvestigated aspects of Jewish biomedical ethics, covenant theology, and textual interpretation in Judaism.

By exploring these issues within the larger context of historical and theoretical work in religious studies, Past Imperatives moves beyond previous work in Jewish ethics, which has largely sought to offer moral guidance from a Jewish perspective. This volume boldly confronts the fact that Judaism encompasses many, sometimes contradictory, ethical perspectives and investigates their theological underpinnings, how they have developed, and how they differ from other moral and/or religious perspectives.

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Explores the nature and development of Jewish ethics by analyzing the relationships between Jewish law and ethics and between Jewish ethics and theology, and the problems and prospects of constructing a contemporary Jewish ethic. The ten essays, written for various audiences over the past decade, consider such topics as Jewish biomedical ethics, covenant theology, and textual interpretation in Judaism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.