A MARRIAGE OF LAW AND LOVE: AN EXPLORATION OF A DIALOGUE BETWEEN RUTH AND PAUL

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. Love in both Testaments
5. LOVE IN THE BIBLE, AND LAW, JUSTICE, AND MERCY: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE SEMANTIC PROFILE OF THE MAIN HEBREW AND GREEK TERMS DENOTING ‘LOVE’, WITH A SPECIAL VIEW ON THE INTERSECTION WITH TERMS DENOTING ‘LAW’, ‘JUSTICE’ AND ‘MERCY’ 15
6. LOVE: THE FULFILLMENT OF THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS 67
7. Love and Justice in the Old Testament
8. WHY LOVE MATTERS FOR JUSTICE: POLITICAL EMOTIONS BETWEEN NARRATIVE AND LAW IN THE HOLINESS CODE 83
9. THE CONCEPT OF LOVE AS “ETHICAL EMOTION” IN DEUTERONOMY 105
10. JUSTICE AND MERCY IN PROVERBS: CAN IT BE? 121
11. Law and Love at the Intersection of the Old and New Testament
12. HOSPITALITY: THE NEXUS BETWEEN LAW AND LOVE 145
13. THE UNITY OF LAW AND LOVE IN PSALM 119: A CHRISTIAN READING 169
14. A MARRIAGE OF LAW AND LOVE: AN EXPLORATION OF A DIALOGUE BETWEEN RUTH AND PAUL 193
15. Justice and Mercy in the Connection between the Two Testaments
16. FORGIVENESS AS THE IMAGE OF THE MERCIFUL AND JUST GOD 215
17. THE DYNAMIC POLARITY BETWEEN JUSTICE AND MERCY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FORMULA OF GRACE (EX 34:6) AND THE PARABLE OF THE UNFORGIVING SERVANT (MT 18:23–35) 235
18. Law and Love in the New Testament
19. PAUL’S ETHICS AND PAUL’S EXPERIENCE: LAW AND LOVE IN GALATIANS 251
20. Justice and Mercy in the New Testament
21. ‘REVENGE IS MINE, I WILL PAY BACK’– HAS MERCY NOT THE LAST WORD, AFTER ALL? READING ROMANS 12:19 AS PART OF AN IMPLICIT DISCOURSE OF JUSTICE AND MERCY 273
22. LOVE FOR ENEMIES, JUSTICE AND THE CONCEPT OF RECIPROCITY IN PAUL (ROM 12:17–21) AND MATTHEW (MT 5:43–48) 301
23. MERCY AND JUSTICE OR MERCY WITHOUT JUSTICE? COMPARING JAMES AND 1 PETER 321
24. BETWEEN PARTIALITY AND MERCY. TENSIONS IN THE ETHICS OF THE LETTER OF JAMES 335