Description: Created Equal : How the Bible Broke With Ancient Political Thought, Hardcover by Berman, Joshua A., ISBN 0195374703, ISBN-13 9780195374704, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In Created Equal, Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective, considering it 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. What emerges is the blueprint for a society that would stand in stark contrast to the surrounding cultures of the ancient Near East -- Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and the Hittite Empire - in which the hierarchical structure of the polity was centered on the figure of the king and his retinue. Berman shows that an egalitarian ideal is articulated in comprehensive fashion in the Pentateuch 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 ancient developments. Thus, for example, the constitutional principles in th of Deuteronomy are examined in the light of those 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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Book Title: Created Equal : How the Bible Broke With Ancient Political Though
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Created Equal : How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Sociology / General, General, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, Jewish Studies, Jewish
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.9 Oz
Item Length: 6.2 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Author: Joshua A. Berman
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
