bible ethics

Wayne Dawson (dawson@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 20:47:42 +0900 (JST)

A question to the philosophers or 1st century scholars on this list.

Are the ethics that Jesus taught such as "love your enemies",
forgiveness, judgement, being the servent rather than the served, the
good Samaritian etc. a uniquely Hebrew contribution to Western
civilization? At least, in the form of a unified set of principles,
can we consider it a Hebrew original?

thanks