Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics

This one-stop reference book on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics offers needed orientation and perspective for students pastors and scholars. Written to respond to the movement among biblical scholars and ethicists 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 Christian ethics are necessarily intertwined and offers up-to-date treatment of five hundred biblical traditional and contemporary topics ranging from adultery bioethics and Colossians to vegetarianism work and Zephaniah. The stellar ecumenical list of contributors consists of more than two hundred leading scholars from the fields of biblical studies and ethics including Darrell Bock David Gushee Amy Laura Hall Daniel Harrington Dennis Olson Christine Pohl Glen Stassen and Max Stackhouse.