Endnote 9 – When God Acts Immorally

For other discussions of this and related topics, see the fine contributions of John Barton, “Understanding Old Testament Ethics,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (JSOT) 9 (1978), pp. 44–64, and “Approaches to Ethics in the Old Testament,” in Beginning Old Testament Study, ed. J. Rogerson (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1982), pp. 113–130; and Jon D. Levenson, Creation and the Persistence of Evil (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988).