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Created Equal - How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Hardcover)
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Created Equal - How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Hardcover)
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Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel
perspective -- as a document of social and political thought. He
proposes that the Pentateuch can be read as the earliest
prescription on record for the establishment of an egalitarian
polity. The blueprint that emerges is that of a society that would
stand in stark contrast to the social orders found in the
surrounding cultures of the ancient Near East -- Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and the Hittite Empire -- where the
hierarchical structure of the polity was centered on the figure of
the king and his retinue. Berman shows that the Pentateuch's
egalitarian ideal is articulated in comprehensive fashion and is
expressed in its theology, politics, economics, use of technologies
of communication, and in its narrative literature. Throughout, he
invokes parallels from the modern period as heuristic devices to
illuminate the ancient developments under study. Thus, for example,
the constitutional principles in the Book of Deuteronomy are
examined in the light of principles espoused by Montesquieu, and
the rise of the novel in 18th-century England serves to illuminate
the advent of new modes of storytelling in biblical narrative.
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