Abstract

This chapter highlights some aspects of the discussion of New Testament ethics by focusing on a set of Jewish texts by way of comparison. The compositions from the Qumran caves are close in time and place to at least some of what is to be found in the New Testament. In the chapter several aspects of the comparison are implied rather than made explicit. The purpose is to raise some general issues that need to be considered when attention is given to the behavioural norms and daily practices of a relatively small, but seemingly coherent group of people who deposited the scrolls in the caves. The chapter ends with some reflections on what New Testament scholars might try to make of the ethics in the Qumran scrolls. Keywords:Jewish; New Testament ethics; New Testament scholars; Qumran Scrolls

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