Problems and New Perspectives in the Study of Early Rabbinic Ethics
Studies of Judaic ethics by modern scholars have generally taken place within the context of theologies of Judaism, and as such share in the shortcomings of that genre of scholarship. Such studies select data for analysis with respect to categories culled in the main from protestant systematic theol...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1981
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1981, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-209 |
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| Summary: | Studies of Judaic ethics by modern scholars have generally taken place within the context of theologies of Judaism, and as such share in the shortcomings of that genre of scholarship. Such studies select data for analysis with respect to categories culled in the main from protestant systematic theology. In so doing materials are "lifted out" of both their literary and "systemic" contexts. The emphases of the religious tradition under study often are ignored or skewed; significant variance of thought within early rabbinic Judaism remains hidden as discrete materials are assimilated to one another; and, finally, the meaning of items of datum seem often to be missed. Studies of early rabbinic ethics, rather, must begin with analyses of individual documents and the unravelling of their idiomatic systems of thought. Peculiarly ethical data may only then be abstracted and viewed against their systemic contexts. What may emerge, moreover, is the identification of different streams within early rabbinism as pertains to issues of ethics. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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