The Ten Commandments: The Reciprocity of Faithfulness (Library of Theological Ethics)

Offering a host of classic and new essays surveying the scholarly ethical and biblical debate surrounding the Ten Commandments William Brown organizes his volume into three parts: the history of interpretation contemporary reflections on the Decalogue as a whole and contemporary reflections on individual commandments. A useful addition to ethics as well as Old Testament and Hebrew Bible courses Browns The Ten Commandments will be a standard reference for all Decalogue research as it facilitates a helpful balance between moral theological and biblical study.The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.