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Old Testament Ethics - A Paradigmatic Approach (Paperback, New)
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Old Testament Ethics - A Paradigmatic Approach (Paperback, New)
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In his book Old Testament Ethics: A Paradigmatic Approach, author
Waldemar Janzen attempts to persuade readers of the predominance of
story over law as the ethical, and exemplary center to the ethics
of the Hebrew Bible. For Janzen, this is demonstrated best by five
paradigms consisting of one central and comprehensive paradigm (The
Familial Paradigm, grounded in Genesis 13, concerning mainly a
framework of: the preservation of life, the possession of land, and
the idea of hospitality) and four internal, subordinate paradigms
consisting of the Priestly Paradigm (taken from Num. 25), the
Wisdom Paradigm (taken from 1Sam. 25), the Royal Paradigm (taken
from 1Sam 24), and the Prophetic Paradigm (taken from 1Kings 21).
According to Dr. Janzen, taken together, all of these five
paradigms present people who are meant to serve as archetypal
images and of course, they are eventually shown to identify the
person Jesus (Janzen, 1994, 193). For Waldemar Janzen, far too much
emphasis has been put on the predominance of the Law throughout Old
Testament study and specifically the study of Old Testament Ethics.
The Family Paradigm as Janzen writes, "represents the comprehensive
end of all Old Testament Ethics" (Janzen, 1994, 3). For Janzen the
Family Paradigm is a model of correct behavior and is not only
narrative and demonstrative but also prior to, as well as the basis
for, the principles and even the commandments of the Old Testament
(Janzen, 1994, 1). For Janzen this narrative approach is said to
avoid the propensity towards reductionism that he perceives to be
stemming from more command oriented approaches.
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