Biblical Ethics and Application : Purview, Validity, and Relevance of Biblical Texts in Ethical Discourse: Kontexte Und Normen Neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics

The authors of this volume discuss the relevance and influence of various Old and New Testament documents, and early Christian and Jewish texts in terms of their impact in shaping the moral character, identity, and behaviour of the specific communities in which they were produced as well as their ethical application throughout the centuries. Against a narrow understanding of ethics, the term ""application"" is not used to analyse the texts of the Bible as step-by-step manuals for moral conduct. Rather, the contributors engage with biblical texts within the framework of a complex hermeneutical process of application of the relevance of these texts in contemporary ethical discourse.



Contributors: Paul N. Anderson, Robert L. Brawley, Cilliers Breytenbach, Ulrich Busse, R. Alan Culpepper, Jan Willem van Henten, Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Stephan Joubert, Craig R. Koester, Bart J. Koet, Michael Labahn, Tobias Nicklas, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Udo Schnelle, Michael Theobald, D. Francois Tolmie, Joseph Verheyden, Ben Witherington, III, Ellen van Wolde, Michael Wolter, Mirjam Zimmermann, Ruben Zimmermann

Born 1958; 1986-90 Minister in the Dutch Reformed Church; 1990-97 Assistant Professor in Biblical Studies, University of Pretoria; 1997-2002 Professor in New Testament Studies, University of Pretoria; 2005-09 Extraordinary Professor in New Testament Studies, University of Pretoria; since 2011 Research Fellow, Radboud University, The Netherland; since 2013 Extraordinary Professor, Contemporary Ecclesiology, University of the Free State, South Africa.

Geboren 1968; 1999 Promotion zum Dr. theol. an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; 1999 Ordination zum Pfarrer der Ev. Landeskirche in Baden; 2003 Habilitation an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Professor für Neues Testament an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Mitbegründer des Forschungszentrums "Ethik in Antike und Christentum" (e/αc) und der Zeitschrift "Journal for Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity" (JEAC); Research Associate im Departement of Old and New Testament Studies an der University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Südafrika.