Jewish Ethics

Before modern times, there was no systematic account of Jewish ethics. This can be attributed to the fact that Jewish tradition never considered ethics an autonomous subject matter or mode of inquiry. There is no indigenous Hebrew word for ethics, describing what ancient Greek thinkers used to denot...

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Main Author: Eugene Korn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology 2024-07-01
Series:St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
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Online Access:https://www.saet.ac.uk/Judaism/JewishEthics