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This one-stop reference book on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics offers helpful orientation and perspective for students, pastors, and scholars. Written to respond to biblical scholars and ethicists’ movement to recover the Bible for moral formation, it is the best reference work available on the intersection of these two fields. The volume shows how Christian Scripture and...

to deprive them of “justice” (Deut. 24:17 [we will return to this matter with the prophets]). The right of a firstborn son to inherit is his mišpāṭ (Deut. 21:17), and Jeremiah exercised his right (mišpāṭ) to inherit land (Jer. 32:6–15). Justice is the principle that guards the integrity of the judicial and administrative order of the land, whether applied to magistrates, leaders, or kings. Favoritism or bribes pervert justice (Deut. 16:18–20) and cannot be tolerated. The recognition of justice
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