In this book, Shira Weiss elucidates the moral tradition of the Hebrew Bible by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis. Examining the most essential questions of Jewish Thought, she uses contemporary philosophy to decipher Scriptural ethics as uncovered from a variety of biblical stories. Aided by ancient, medieval, and contemporary resources, Weiss presents a comprehensive discussion of enduring ethical questions that arise from biblical narrative and continue to be contested in modern times. She shows how such analysis can unsettle assumptions and beliefs, as well as foster moral reflection. Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible will be of interest to scholars and students of ethics, philosophy, Jewish thought, biblical theology, and exegesis.

Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible: Philosophical Analysis of Scriptural Narrative

This paper focuses on Levinas’s understanding of the social as distinguished from the political. In his neo-phenomenological work, Levinas never conceptualized the difference between the political ...

Levinas on the Social: Guilt and the City:

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Ethics of Deception

He who knows only his side of the case knows little of that. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Justice in judaism: the case of jonah

Levinas modestly admits that the title of his collection of lectures From the Sacred to the Holy reflects the fact that his Talmud studies are guided neither by the certainty of religious piety nor the "certainties" of historical, text-critical scholarship. Rather, his readings continue the tradition of the Talmud, the "oral Torah" that extracts from the "written Torah" ethical meaning as the ultimate intelligibility of the human and even of the cosmic.59 Taking "philosophy" in this practical sense as a contribution to the reflective resolution of existential quandaries, Albert Einstein would surely think again about

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Justice in judaism: the case of jonah

The Talmud in the Mind of Emmanuel Levinas