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The Genesis of Ethics

The Genesis of Ethics

Visotzky, Burton L.

Paperback

Religion General Bible StudiesChristian Living

ISBN10: 0609801678
ISBN13: 9780609801673
Publisher: Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
Published: Sep 23 1997
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
Burton L. Visotzky, one of America's most respected scholars of religion, guides readers through a close reading of the narratives of the Book of Genesis, exposing their brutal power and revealing how their moral dilemmas apply to ethical issues we face in our lives today.

Rabbi Visotzky has led highly regarded seminars, attended by novelists, poets, editors, filmmakers and critics, Fortune 500 CEOs, bankers, and attorneys. He also was a major participant in Bill Moyers's PBS Genesis series. His reading of Genesis opens the door to moral development for all readers--Christians, Jews, Muslims, and secularists.

As Burton Visotzky says, the Book of Genesis seems to be, at least on first reading, an ugly little soap opera about a dysfunctional family . . . a story about rape, incest, murder, deception, brute force, sex, and blood lust. But these stories reveal much about human dilemmas and ethical problems that mirror our own lives. By delving into the lives of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Esau and holding up these characters of Scripture to the light of critical inquiry, Burton Visotzky reveals much that is fresh and useful about ethics and morality.

He is a rabbi who is earthy, playful, and full of insight, who refuses to draw a veil over the dark side of the Bible or of our own contemporary experience.

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