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Ethics of Reconciliation and Win-Win in the Sojourning Life of the Old Testament: An Ethical Reading of Abraham Narratives

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2011, (22), pp.185-212
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

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ABSTRACT

The patriarchal history as beginning of the Old Testament history can be called the grafting field between the Old testament and Ethics in the meaning that it presents the beginning of ancient Israelites' religion and life formalities. It's framework is composed of special members of same family, so to speak Abraham, Jacob and Isaac and various themes such as their confrontations and conflicts and finally their overcome etc. And lies the common denominator of sojourning life behind their confrontations and conflicts. Especially, Abraham's sojourning life which is the beginning and center of the patriarchal history presents not merely the life of an ancestor's living style and his great belief/religion of Yahwism but also confrontations and conflicts between the members and generations and their overcoming stories can be seen as the windows and mirrors to see their own stories in Sitz im Leben of the exilic circumstances. This thesis presents the confrontations and conflicts in Abraham's sojourning life as those in the themes of lies for survival, conflicts for the land/posession and conflicts in the multicultural family/community. I try to read Abraham narratives in a pont of view such as 9th of decalogue, ethical consciousness of the redactor, conciliations and win-win awareness, and multicultural cognition etc. And I include theological viewpoint namely sojourner-Israel and sojouner-God in it. That is one of the efforts to read the Abraham's patriarchal narratives with the current prism and to explicate the overcoming and win-win narratives in the ethical standpoint. So that I presents theological message of ancient Israelites' self-identity as sojourners and God-cognition as sojourner too in the perspective of christian social ethics.

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