RT Article
T1 Love Thy Neighbor: The Expansive Command
JF Socio-historical examination of religion and ministry
VO 2
IS 2
SP 143
OP 155
A1 Bishop, Steven
LA English
PB Wipf and Stock Publishers
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779082835
AB John Hartung asserted in “Love Thy Neighbor: The Evolution of In-Group Morality” that the command to love, and the later use of it by Jesus, does not apply to everyone but only to those within one’s own group. Through a close reading of Leviticus and the Gospel of Matthew, this essay questions Hartung’s hermeneutic and assesses his conclusion as erroneous. By interrogating the world of the text using a literary method, this essay argues for an appreciation of the complexity of the language and the importance of literary context.
DO 10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no2.08