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The Law as a Revolution

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/gods-wisdom-law/

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

Biblical law is a revolutionary political theology that elevated all humans to royal dignity centuries before modern egalitarianism.

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Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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obedience-and-authority

That King would call himself the image of God. That was a political theology. It let him rule the way he wanted to.
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In your cultural mythology, everybody is slaves except those who are related to the divine, which happens to be the king who's an image of God.
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You let her grieve her loss. She's not your property and she never was. This is pretty revolutionary stuff — a divine ideal being introduced into a really bad situation.
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belonging

The common Israelite is elevated to the role of a royal covenant partner with king of the universe. These laws elevate the average Israelites in sense of themselves and their value.
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A culture that wants equality and justice for all, but separate it from the religious narrative that makes that reasonable, has a living contradiction.
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faith-and-doubt

Jeremiah and Ezekiel imagined God writing the laws of the Torah on the heart so that everyone knows me — not that you know good and evil, you know me.
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