Scripture is replete with narratives that challenge a variety of philosophical concepts; including morality, divine benevolence, and human freedom. Free choice, a significant and much debated concept in medieval philosophy, continues to be of great interest to contemporary philosophers and others. However, scholarship in biblical studies has primarily focused on compositional history, philology, and literary analysis, not on the examination of the philosophy implied in biblical texts.

In this book, Shira Weiss focuses on the Hebrew Bible's encounter with the philosophical notion of free...

Elucidates the Scriptural moral tradition by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis.