>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
I think I have seen it stated that the golden rule is usually stated
negatively ("don't do what you don't want done to you") outside of the
late Hebrew, Christian tradition, and of course, positively, within that
tradition. What say those with wider reading and better memories than me?
Preston G.