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Offline Don

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Created Equal by Berger reviewed by Hess
« on: July 08, 2012, 05:54:06 AM »
http://www.denverseminary.edu/article/created-equal-how-the-bible-broke-with-ancient-political-thought/#.T_kURP7RiBA.facebook

This book shows how the Torah in general and Deu in particular promoted egal ideas in contrast to other cultures.  I added it to my wish list.
My translation of Eph 5:21-22 ... mutually submitting in the fear of Messiah; wives (mutually submitting) to your husbands as to the Lord.

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Re: Created Equal by Berger reviewed by Hess
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2012, 06:43:54 AM »
Interesting!  I suspect some will question his drawing out anti-big government ideas from the text considering how wide-reaching jubilee was (that is, arguably it is hard to transfer the OT ideas one way or another into the framework of our time; I suspect an agenda when I see such).  Women do not seem to be in the forefront of this book if this review is any indication.   That is natural, since it would be impossible to make a case that OT egalitarianism extended to them, although generally the laws could be argued to be far more considerate of them than in surrounding nations (therefore, the redemptive trajectory hermeneutic arguments).
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, / Round our restlessness, His rest. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I thought about the former days, the years of long ago; I remembered my songs in the night.--Psalm 77

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My translation of Eph 5:21-22 ... mutually submitting in the fear of Messiah; wives (mutually submitting) to your husbands as to the Lord.

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Re: Created Equal by Berger reviewed by Hess
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2012, 10:09:24 PM »
This book looks so interesting.   Maybe one day ... 
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