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구약의 사회적 약자와 법전의 사회윤리

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2009, (18), pp.259-288
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

Sa-Ya Lee 1

1남서울대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The Old Testament seldom uses ethical terminologies like ethics, virtue, moral excellence, ideal, etc. But it definitely presents the way which Israelites justly had to walk as the people of God and the touchstone of good and evil. The ancient Israelite community had the laws and law codes which sustained their society and especially the Old Testament law codes are filled with social ethical thought which reflects the sitz im leben and the current sense of the times of ancient Israelites. The social ethics in the Old Testament law codes emphasizes the dignity of man and simultaneously requires Israelites to excute for and love the social weak as the people of God who loves and executes justice for them. So in the Old Testament, matters of social ethics become theological issues. Furthermore, the Old testament social ethics which have been developed as the shape of law codes in the light of politics, society, liturgy and economics of the peculiar ancient Israelite community is more concerned about the social weak namely sojourners, widows, orphans and Levites than any other ancient Near East law codes. In this paper, I’m going to investigate the personal and communal social ethics in the Old Testament law codes such as Covenant Code, Holiness Code, Deuteronomic Code and find the differences with other Near East codes and then ascertain historical and theological meaning of social ethics which uniquely the Old Testament law codes preserve.

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