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Author Lau, Peter H. W.

Title Identity and ethics in the book of Ruth : a social identity approach / Peter H.W. Lau.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; Bd. 416
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 416.
Note Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2009.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and index.
Contents Ancient Israelite identity -- Boaz : identity and ethics -- Ruth : identity and ethics -- Naomi : identity and ethics -- A provenance for the book of Ruth.
Summary This study demonstrates the importance of including narrative ethics in a construction of Old Testament ethics. The social identity approach is used as a lens through which to understand and derive ethics. This approach highlights the social emphases of a biblical text, and consequently assists in understanding a text's original ethical message. The book of Ruth is used as a test case, employing a social identity approach for understanding the narrative, but also to model the approach so that it can be implemented more widely in study of the Old Testament and narrative ethics. Each of the prot.
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Subject Bible. Ruth -- Criticism, Narrative.
Bible. Ruth.
Bible. Ruth -- Social scientific criticism.
Social scientific criticism of sacred works.
Bible. Ruth -- Criticism, Narrative -- Social scientific criticism.
Ethics in the Bible.
Ethics in the Bible.
Sociology, Biblical.
Sociology, Biblical.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lau, Peter H.W. Identity and ethics in the book of Ruth. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2011 9783110247602 (DLC) 2010034691 (OCoLC)659305610
ISBN 9783110247619 (electronic book)
3110247615 (electronic book)
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9781282934412
9783110247602
3110247607