Chapter 1: Basic Perspectives on Reality
Chapter 2: Receiving Benefits in the Hebrew Bible
Chapter 3: Challenges: Major Issues
Chapter 4: Positively Good Social Life
Chapter 5: Remedial Actions in the Hebrew Bible
Chapter 6: Defense of Communal Integrity
Chapter 7: Rituals
Chapter 8: Advice about Flourishing with Others: Proverbs
Chapter 9: Realistic Assessments of Life
Chapter 10: The Background of the Christian Testament
Chapter 11: Receiving Benefits in the Christian Testament
Chapter 12: Receiving Challenges in the Christian Testament
Martin J. Buss is professor emeritus at Emory University.
In this engaging book, Martin Buss, one of the most profound
scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Testament today,
offers his reflections on what makes a good life in light of these
biblical writings. Free of technicalities, his perceptions are
original, independent, stimulating, and gently persuasive.
We do need new approaches to biblical exegesis and theology. Here
is a superb example of what can and should be done. Buss ventures
to ask vital contemporary questions of human existence, not to
individual biblical texts but to crowds of ancient witnesses. What
makes a life 'good'? How can we achieve justice, peace, and love?
His mind is wide open to religious experiences outside our
Jewish-Christian tradition. The intricate relationship of receiving
impulses, goods, and insights and reaching out to give back and
possibly appropriate positions of dominance--also an eminent
philosophical and psychological problem--are at the center of
Buss's deliberations. Under his scrutiny, the Bible and other
testimonies of good faith become vivid partners in a dialogue
concerning a disturbing question: What is humankind that Deity
should consider it? This book is for a wide range of serious
searchers.
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