The Roots of Jewish Ethics in the Old Testament
Subject Areas : Christianityاعظم پرچم 1 , مهدی حبیب اللهی 2
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Keywords: Ethics, Judaism, Old Testament, Torah,
Abstract :
Jewish Ethics as one of the oldest ethical traditions has had a greatimpact on ethical schools and therefore it attracted a lot of interest fromthe scholars. Despite this fact, the original source of the Jewish ethics,i.e. the Old Testament, and its function has often been disregarded andas result there are not enough scholarly works on this subject. Althoughthe Old Testament is not considered as an ethical book and there is nospecific section devoted to the ethical teachings in it, by analyzing itslegal orders, sermons and narrations one can infer a great number ofethical teachings. This essay tries to provide a general overview ofethical aspect of the Old Testament, its features and problems and referto some examples of ethical and educational instructions of the bookand finally divide its ethical messages in several classes.
