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Chargement... The immoral Bible : approaches to biblical ethicspar Eryl W. Davies
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The book serves a good purpose by introducing the audience to some hermeneutic approaches, but does not serve as a book that helps to resolve questions of immorality in the field of philosophical ethics nor in the Hebrew Bible. His reader-response method works on the reader, entering into the argument with an open-mind and critical discourse, but returning to an exegesis of the passage would be worthwhile as a priority.
In this work Eryl W. Davies sums up a career's worth of in-depth reflection on the thorny issue of biblical ethics examining the bible's, at times problematic, stance upon slavery, polygamy and perhaps its most troublesome aspect, the sanctioning of violence and warfare. This is most pertinent in respect to Joshua 6-11 a text which lauds the 'holy war' of the Israelites, anihiliting the native inhabitants of Canaan, and a text which has been used to legitimise the actions of white colonists in North America, the Boers in South Africa and right-wing Zionists in modern Israel. Davies begins wi Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The structure of the book is commendably clear. The opening chapter sets up the problem - there are bits of the Bible which are morally repugnant to the modern reader. Davies pics on one particularly troubling passage - the destruction of the Canaanites described in Josh 6-11, and in the following 5 chapters he goes on to discuss five approaches (Evolutionary, Cultural Relativist, Canonical, Paradigmatic and Reader-Response) and use their handling of Josh 6-11 as a case study, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
Apart from seemingly occasionally to fail to appreciate the nuances of the some of the approaches, there are two significant weaknesses to the book, which are related. The first is to criticise methods because they are not readily accessible to the average modern reader. But if there were methods of dealing with this very knotty problem which were readily accessible to the modern reader we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. The second issue is related to this - a failure to appreciate the Ecclesial dimension of interpretation. This is nowhere clearer than in his rather paradoxical critique of canonical approaches where he challenges the fixedness of the Canon - but again, if we could write our own canon the problem would disappear.
Overall, however, it is well worth a read by anyone interested in this question, not least for its very extensive coverage of much of the literature already available on this question. ( )