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Ethics and Biblical Narrative - A Literary and Discourse-Analytical Approach to the Story of Josiah (Hardcover)
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Ethics and Biblical Narrative - A Literary and Discourse-Analytical Approach to the Story of Josiah (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
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This book proposes a methodological framework for an ethical
reading of Old Testament narrative and demonstrates its benefits
and validity by providing an exemplary reading of the story of
Josiah in Kings. Part One delineates the meaning of "ethical
reading" practised in the work. The theoretical framework is
critically adopted from Martha Nussbaum. This approach to ethics
does not extract general rules out of story, rather it allows the
reader to appreciate the world of the story itself, which is
analogous with real life. Part Two expounds "synchronic literary
criticism anchored in discourse analysis" and elucidates its use
for ethical reading of Old Testament narrative. Part Three offers
exemplary ethical readings and shows how discourse analysis can
help the literary issues such as plot delimitation and
characterisation. Through the ethical commentary of the story of
Josiah, the theme of contingency in life can be noticed to prevail
in the story. When contingency in life is accepted as a real part
of the human moral life, understanding of ethics should be enlarged
so that it may be coped with properly. Here ethics is understood in
terms of practical wisdom that can be used for ethical
improvisation for ever-changing situations. The particularities in
Old Testament narrative are useful features that make the reader
perceptive to the complexity of life and thus train practical
wisdom; and the literary and discourse-analytical approach makes
the most of the genre-characteristics of Old Testament narrative,
which realistically reflects the complexity of moral life.
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