Lecturas contemporáneas de la ley natural

Resumen: la teoría de la ley natural ha tenido un extenso desarrollo en la ética, más allá de lo jurídico, por lo que bien puede hablarse de una ética de la ley natural, con una vigencia desde su nacimiento en el pensamiento griego hasta la filosofía contemporánea. En este trabajo se atiende a la especial lectura que hacen los moralistas neo-analíticos de habla inglesa, quienes tratan, sistemática y/o históricamente, el tema de la ley natural, sea traduciéndola a su proceder epistemológico, sea en confrontación o crítica, sea desde una forma «sui generis» de reivindicación. Esto nos permite hablar de una vigencia de lo que su concepto significa: ser una ley que se sustenta en la naturaleza racional y universal de la humanidad

Biblical evidence from Obadiah and Psalm 137 for an Edomite treaty betrayal of Judah in the sixth century B.C.E.

Abstract: Focusing on Obadiah and Psalm 137, this article provides biblical evidence for an Edomite treaty betrayal of Judah during the Babylonian crisis ca. 588–586 B.C.E. After setting a context that includes the use of treaties in the ancient Near East to establish expectations for political relationships and the likelihood that Edom could operate as a political entity in the Judahite Negev during the Babylonian assault, this article demonstrates that Obadiah’s poetics include a density of inverted form and content (a reversal motif) pointing to treaty betrayal. Obadiah’s modifications of Jeremiah 49, a text with close thematic and terminological parallels, evidence an Edomite treaty betrayal of Judah. Moreover, the study shows that Obadiah is replete with treaty allusions. A study of Psalm 137 in comparison with Aramaic treaty texts from Sefire reveals that this difficult psalm also evidences a treaty betrayal by Edom and includes elements appropriate for treaty curses. The article closes with a discussion of piecemeal data from a few other biblical texts, a criticism of the view that Edom was innocent during the Babylonian crisis, and a suggestion that this treaty betrayal may have contributed to the production of some anti-Edom biblical material.