Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics: Re-Reading Amos, Hosea and First Isaiah. By Hilary Marlow
All biblical interpretation is done in specific circumstances that affect the aims and results of the interpretation. Old Testament scholars of the late nineteenth century, who worked in an intellectual world shaped by social Darwinism, produced quite different results from scholars confronted by th...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 272-274 |
Review of: | Biblical prophets and contemporary environmental ethics (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009) (Rogerson, J. W.)
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Summary: | All biblical interpretation is done in specific circumstances that affect the aims and results of the interpretation. Old Testament scholars of the late nineteenth century, who worked in an intellectual world shaped by social Darwinism, produced quite different results from scholars confronted by the National Socialist demands that Hebrew and the Old Testament should be banished from German universities. Again, scholars responding to the women’s and liberation movements of the 1970s and 1980s produced results that engaged with the quite new concerns that these movements had highlighted. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flr032 |