By J. Gleicher
ISBN-10: 0230618227
ISBN-13: 9780230618220
Jules Gleicher explores chosen passages from the Hebrew Scriptures that attention in particular, yet no longer completely, at the sacred text’s teachings and implications approximately politics, legislation, justice, and rulership. Chapters deal, successively, with the ebook of Genesis, episodes within the occupation of Moses, points of the Mosaic legislations, the Prophetic historical past, and 5 prophetic practitioners. continuing neither from the doctrinal premises of the pro clergy nor from the methodological assumptions of Biblical feedback, the essays supply respectful and considerate makes an attempt to question an historic and venerable resource on important problems with perennial curiosity.
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18:33). What, then, must he think the next morning, when “looking down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the land of the Plain, he saw the smoke of the land rising like the smoke of a kiln” (Gen. 19:27–28)? That God has broken His word? Or that God, who let him bargain down to ten, knew all along his effort would be futile, and was thus mocking him? That the cities’ envisioned punishment might diminish Abraham’s loyalty to God is anticipated in a rare textual glimpse into divine deliberation: Now the LORD had said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, since Abraham is to become a great and populous nation and all the nations of the earth are to bless themselves by him?
Perhaps this is because he is still recovering from his recent circumcision (Gen. 17:23–27). Or has he invested so much hope in Ishmael that he deliberately avoids intimacy with Sarah (Gen. 17:18)? And after the destruction of the cities, he goes to Gerar, where for the second time he tries to pass Sarah off as merely his sister, and for the second time she is taken into a king’s harem (Gen. 20:1–2; cf. 12:10–20). Given how poorly this ruse worked before, his action is at least puzzling, even suspect, considering God’s twice-stated promise to provide a son through Sarah.
Perhaps his nerve just fails him—he is, after all, speaking to the “Judge of all the earth” (Gen. 54 Equally plausible, though, is that the text here assumes that justice is not only an individual matter. It also entails community responsibility. A basically good man, as Lot may be when he first comes to Sodom, who cannot find nine good neighbors, or make nine bad neighbors good, should view that community as incorrigible and feel obliged to leave. The text emphasizes that Sodom is such a community when it notes that the mob that surrounds Lot’s house includes “young and old—all the people to the last man” (Gen.
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