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"This book proposes a methodological framework for an ethical reading of Old Testament narrative and demonstrates its benefits and validity by providing an exemplary reading of the story of Josiah in Kings.Part One delineates the meaning of ""ethical reading"" practised in the work. The theoretical framework is critically adopted from Martha Nussbaum. This approach to ethics does not extract general rules out of story, rather it allows the reader to appreciate the world of the story itself, which is analogous with real life. Part Two expounds ""synchronic literary criticism anchored in discourse analysis"" and elucidates its use for ethical reading of Old Testament narrative. Part Three offers exemplary ethical readings and shows how discourse analysis can help the literary issues such as plot delimitation and characterisation. Through the ethical commentary of the story of Josiah, the theme of contingency in life can be noticed to prevail in the story. When contingency in life is accepted as a real part of the human moral life, understanding of ethics should be enlarged so that it may be coped with properly. Here ethics is understood in terms of practical wisdom that can be used for ethical improvisation for ever-changing situations. The particularities in Old Testament narrative are useful features that make the reader perceptive to the complexity of life and thus train practical wisdom; and the literary and discourse-analytical approach makes the most of the genre-characteristics of Old Testament narrative, which realistically reflects the complexity of moral life."

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Author:   S. Min Chun (Vancouver Institute for Evangelical Worldview, Langley, BC, Canada)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.582kg
ISBN:  

9780199688968

ISBN 10:   0199688966
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   13 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction I: Old Testament Narrative and Ethics 1: The Object and the Task of Old Testament Ethics 2: Survey of Previous Works Focusing on their Treatment of Narratives 3: Old Testament Narrative Ethics: Current Scene and a Proposal II: Discourse Analysis for Ethical Reading of Old Testament Narrative 4: Defining Discourse Analysis 5: Benefits of Discourse Analysis for Ethical Reading 6: Evaluation: Direct Benefits of Discourse Analysis for Ethical Reading III: Examples 7: Two Short Examples: Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:21-25) and Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:13-16) 8: Extended Example: an Ethical Commentary on the Story of Josiah in 2 Kings 22:1-23:30 Conclusions Appendix: Verbal Constructions of 2 Kings 22:1-23:30

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S. Min Chun is Assistant Professor of Worldview and Biblical Studies, Vancouver Institute for Evangelical Worldview, Langley, Canada

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