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e. Ethics in the Bible refers to the system (s) or theory (ies) produced by the study, interpretation, and evaluation of biblical morals (including the moral code, standards, principles, behaviors, conscience, values, rules of conduct, or beliefs concerned with good and evil and right and wrong), that are found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.
Christian ethics, also known as moral theology, is a multi-faceted ethical system. It is a virtue ethic, which focuses on building moral character, and a deontological ethic which emphasizes duty. It also incorporates natural law ethics, which is built on the belief that it is the very nature of humans – created in the image of God and ...
The Book of Wisdom, or the Wisdom of Solomon, is a book written in Greek and most likely composed in Alexandria, Egypt. It is not part of the Hebrew Bible but is included in the Septuagint . Generally dated to the mid-first century BC , [ 1 ] or to the reign of Caligula (AD 37-41), [ 2 ] the central theme of the work is " wisdom " itself ...
Sophia (Koinē Greek: σοφία, sophía —"wisdom") is a central idea in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism and Christian theology. Originally carrying a meaning of "cleverness, skill", the later meaning of the term, close to the meaning of phronesis ("wisdom, intelligence"), was significantly shaped by the term ...
Holy Wisdom (Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, Latin: Sancta Sapientia) is a concept in Christian theology. Christian theology received the Old Testament personification of Wisdom (Hebrew Chokmah) as well as the concept of Wisdom (Sophia) from Greek philosophy, especially Platonism. In Christology, Christ the Logos as God the Son was identified with ...
Book of Sirach. The Book of Sirach (/ ˈsaɪræk /) [a], also known as The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach[1] or Ecclesiasticus (/ ɪˌkliːziˈæstɪkəs /), [2] is a Jewish literary work, originally written in Biblical Hebrew. The longest extant wisdom book from antiquity, [1][3] it consists of ethical teachings, written approximately ...
The Book of Proverbs (Hebrew: מִשְלֵי, Mišlê; Greek: Παροιμίαι; Latin: Liber Proverbiorum, "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ascribed to King Solomon and his students later appearing in the Christian Old Testament. [1] When translated into Greek and Latin ...
Ecclesiastes (/ ɪˌkliːziˈæstiːz / ih-KLEE-zee-ASS-teez; Biblical Hebrew: קֹהֶלֶת, romanized: Qōheleṯ, Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής, romanized: Ekklēsiastēs) is one of the Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible and part of the Wisdom literature of the Christian Old Testament. The title commonly used in English is ...