Sin and Punishment: The Ethics of Divine Justice and Retribution in Ancient Near Eastern and Old Testament Texts
This article gives a short survey of concepts of “sin and sanction,” the “crisis of Wisdom,” and divine justice in ancient Mesopotamian texts and in the Old Testament. A concluding summary provides a comparison of these two ancient Near Eastern cultures’ understandings of the ethics of divine justic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Interpretation
Year: 2015, Volume: 69, Issue: 3, Pages: 272-287 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Wisdom B Sin and sanction B Law B Qoheleth B Theodicy B Old Testament ethics B Divine Will B Retribution |
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| Summary: | This article gives a short survey of concepts of “sin and sanction,” the “crisis of Wisdom,” and divine justice in ancient Mesopotamian texts and in the Old Testament. A concluding summary provides a comparison of these two ancient Near Eastern cultures’ understandings of the ethics of divine justice. |
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| ISSN: | 2159-340X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0020964315578205 |