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Contending for Justice: Ideologies and Theologies of Social Justice in the Old Testament Hardback - 2006

by Walter J. Houston

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The book argues on the one hand that a class interest is involved in all texts on the subject of social justice, and on the other that that very interest demands that they should appeal to the broadest possible public by using generally accepted ethical and theological ideas. Four elements are set out in a hermeneutical proposal: texts should be understood as rhetoric in real social situations, as ideology protecting a social position, as defining recognized ethical values, and theologically as having a critical and constructive potential for the interpreter's own situation. A second chapter attempts to sketch the social conditions in which such texts were formed. The hermeneutical scheme is then applied, but not rigidly, to a wide range of texts: prophetic denunciations of oppression, texts in a variety of genres defining the characteristics of the just individual, texts in the Psalms and Isaiah defining the duty of the king to protect the poor, visions of a just community in the prophets, words of Torah aimed at protecting the indebted poor and restoring an independent peasantry, and assertions of the justice of God. as a resource in the struggle for justice.

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  • Title Contending for Justice: Ideologies and Theologies of Social Justice in the Old Testament
  • Author Walter J. Houston
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher T. & T. Clark Publishers, London & New York
  • Publication date September 12, 2006
  • ISBN 9780567043733 / 0567043738
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.45 x 6.38 x 0.84 in (24.00 x 16.21 x 2.13 cm)
  • Category Religion - Commentaries / Reference
  • Library of Congress subjects Social justice - Biblical teaching
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006044553
  • Dewey Decimal Code 230.041

About the author

The Rev. Dr Walter J. Houston is Fellow Emeritus at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a contributor to the Oxford Bible Commentary and Eerdmans Bible Commentary.
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