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11 - Religion and Ethics in Isaiah

from Part III - Prophetic Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

C. L. Crouch
Affiliation:
Fuller Theological Seminary, California
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‘It should never be forgotten that the prophetic demand was religious, and that it sprang from the conception of God’. This essay aims to explore the relationship between religion and ethics, arguing that the ethical appeals in Isaiah were based on and prompted by largely the same conception of God and of religion as appear in the priestly literature of the Pentateuch. First, we sketch from the priestly sources the essence and the interrelatedness of certain key concepts, namely, rituals, holiness, and (im)purity. Second, we investigate the relationship of these concepts to ideas expressed in Isaiah.

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Print publication year: 2021

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Rodd, C. S. Glimpses of a Strange Land: Studies in Old Testament Ethics. OTS. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2001.Google Scholar
Schwartz, B. J.The Bearing of Sin in the Priestly Literature’. Pages 321 in Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom. Edited by Wright, D. P., Freedman, D. N., and Hurvitz, A.. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1995.Google Scholar
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