A Few Ethical Issues of the Hebrew Bible
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Bible, Israel, EthicsAbstract
Ethics and moral are defined in relative terms, based on the convention of each community, according to Bertrand Russell. But the Hebrew Bible believes in the existence of an absolute and universal model. There are several passages in the biblical literature that raise questions of an ethical nature, such as the discussion between God and Abraham about survival or not of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The patriarch Abraham does not repeat this discussion when God tells him to execute his own son. Many other relevant issues can and should be raised, not only for better understanding of the biblical text, but also for the development of the human thinking in general.
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