Tag: Political Thought
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A Good, Swift Kick in the Gut
I will rebuke your descendants, and I will throw shit on your faces—the shit of your festival offerings—and you will be carried off to the shitpile along with it. — Malachi 2:3 Translations of the Bible are often too nice, so much so that the real meaning gets lost. The fact is, the Bible confronts…
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How I Accidentally Wrote a Book about Moses
The wilderness narrative, the story at the heart of the Torah, or Pentateuch, follows the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan—from enslavement, to liberation, to independence. In an important sense, though, the story of Israel is the story of Moses. Philo of Alexandria wrote his De Vita Moses as a biography of this leader and lawgiver par excellence, one arm…
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