Redescribing Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot: A Triadic Comparison
This book presents the first comprehensive comparison of how moral agency is constructed in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot. World Kim argues that recent scholastic studies have overemphasized differences amongst various Second Temple texts and neglected the similarities between them. By employing four stages of comparison-description, juxtaposition, re-description, and rectification- Kim re-describes moral agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot, and aims to rectify the relationship between these texts.

Kim demonstrates that moral agency cannot be described by categories such as affirmation or denial, and argues that such agency should instead be described in terms of degrees and shaped by various factors such as knowledge and desire, that will either decrease or increase moral agency. Through an extensive comparison of these texts, Kim concludes that the degree to which one internalizes and actualizes the teachings of their religious text increases one's capacity for moral agency, and that this agency must be conceived as dynamic rather than static.

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Redescribing Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot: A Triadic Comparison
This book presents the first comprehensive comparison of how moral agency is constructed in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot. World Kim argues that recent scholastic studies have overemphasized differences amongst various Second Temple texts and neglected the similarities between them. By employing four stages of comparison-description, juxtaposition, re-description, and rectification- Kim re-describes moral agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot, and aims to rectify the relationship between these texts.

Kim demonstrates that moral agency cannot be described by categories such as affirmation or denial, and argues that such agency should instead be described in terms of degrees and shaped by various factors such as knowledge and desire, that will either decrease or increase moral agency. Through an extensive comparison of these texts, Kim concludes that the degree to which one internalizes and actualizes the teachings of their religious text increases one's capacity for moral agency, and that this agency must be conceived as dynamic rather than static.

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Redescribing Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot: A Triadic Comparison

Redescribing Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot: A Triadic Comparison

Redescribing Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot: A Triadic Comparison

Redescribing Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot: A Triadic Comparison

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This book presents the first comprehensive comparison of how moral agency is constructed in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot. World Kim argues that recent scholastic studies have overemphasized differences amongst various Second Temple texts and neglected the similarities between them. By employing four stages of comparison-description, juxtaposition, re-description, and rectification- Kim re-describes moral agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot, and aims to rectify the relationship between these texts.

Kim demonstrates that moral agency cannot be described by categories such as affirmation or denial, and argues that such agency should instead be described in terms of degrees and shaped by various factors such as knowledge and desire, that will either decrease or increase moral agency. Through an extensive comparison of these texts, Kim concludes that the degree to which one internalizes and actualizes the teachings of their religious text increases one's capacity for moral agency, and that this agency must be conceived as dynamic rather than static.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780567719591
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/15/2025
Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

World Kim is Director of Family Ministry and Discipleship at Rosebrook Presbyterian Church, USA.

Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology. A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it?

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Describing Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot
Chapter Three: Religious Knowledge in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot
Chapter Four: Desire in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot
Chapter Five: Moral Agency in Sirach, 4QInstruction, and the Hodayot
Chapter Six: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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