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"""""This is an audacious and fascinating book by a philosopher who sets out to solve some of the Bible's most vexing interpretive puzzles. Murphy is simultaneously clear, nuanced, learned, and creative. As a concise primer on biblical ethics, this book is unsurpassed. I know of no better book to put in the hands of someone who wants to know if and how the Bible can be a useful source for thinking our way through ethical dilemmas today."""" --William T. Cavanaugh, Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University; author of Theopolitical Imagination """"This is a pithy, provocative, and profound meditation on the deep ethical unity of the Bible and its enduring wisdom and guidance for people of faith. You can read this book in an evening--but study it for a long time, particularly its skillful blending of biblical texts and teachings on some of the most controversial moral questions of our day."""" --John Witte Jr., Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University"

"""This is an audacious and fascinating book by a philosopher who sets out to solve some of the Bible's most vexing interpretive puzzles. Murphy is simultaneously clear, nuanced, learned, and creative. As a concise primer on biblical ethics, this book is unsurpassed. I know of no better book to put in the hands of someone who wants to know if and how the Bible can be a useful source for thinking our way through ethical dilemmas today."" --William T. Cavanaugh, Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University; author of Theopolitical Imagination ""This is a pithy, provocative, and profound meditation on the deep ethical unity of the Bible and its enduring wisdom and guidance for people of faith. You can read this book in an evening--but study it for a long time, particularly its skillful blending of biblical texts and teachings on some of the most controversial moral questions of our day."" --John Witte Jr., Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University"

This is an audacious and fascinating book by a philosopher who sets out to solve some of the Bible's most vexing interpretive puzzles. Murphy is simultaneously clear, nuanced, learned, and creative. As a concise primer on biblical ethics, this book is unsurpassed. I know of no better book to put in the hands of someone who wants to know if and how the Bible can be a useful source for thinking our way through ethical dilemmas today. --William T. Cavanaugh, Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University; author of Theopolitical Imagination This is a pithy, provocative, and profound meditation on the deep ethical unity of the Bible and its enduring wisdom and guidance for people of faith. You can read this book in an evening--but study it for a long time, particularly its skillful blending of biblical texts and teachings on some of the most controversial moral questions of our day. --John Witte Jr., Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University

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James Bernard Murphy is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, where he teaches political philosophy, jurisprudence, and ethics. Murphy's scholarly books include The Moral Economy of Labor (1993) and Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood (2020). He has also written for a wider audience in his book How to Think Politically (with Graeme Garrard, 2019) and in essays for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

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