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Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought

God's Radical Laws of Freedom in the Old Testament Author: Joshua Berman In Created Equal Joshua Berman focuses on the Hebrew Bible (i.e., the Old Testament to Christians) and its revolutionary sociological and political precepts. In God’s ancient covenant with Israel, He broke from the prevailing king worship and tiered social structure (think “class”) of the day, using His laws and their implementation to create a society where everyone was equal. Of course, this one sentence doesn’t get to the complexity behind how this equal society was created and just how vastly different it was from all the other social structures [...]

Frances Carden2022-12-11T11:22:56-07:00December 11th, 2022|Tags: book review, Christian, history, non-fiction, Old Testament, read, reading, scholarly|

None of These Diseases

A Look Behind God's Ancient Laws Authors: S.I. McMillen & David E. Stern Anyone who has spent any amount of time with the Old Testament is familiar with the seemingly endless laws, the daily thou shalts that get down to the level of when and where to relieve oneself, what foods can and cannot be eaten, when to rest, and even when to wash and when to quarantine. As children, these sections seemed tedious, but as adults we start to wonder about these ancient laws that seem to have more to do with the health and wellness of God’s people than [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-07T22:35:18-07:00August 20th, 2022|Tags: book review, Christian, nonfiction, read, reading, religious|

God Is a Man of War

Tackling the Difficult Concepts in the Old Testament Author: Stephen De Young I discovered God is a Man of War through a YouTube recording of Father Stephen de Young discussing perceptions of unsubstantiated violence and brutality recorded in the Old Testament. De Young’s logical arguments and his willingness to address the proverbial elephant in the room drew me to reading the larger, more in-depth work from which he was drawing summary arguments. De Young starts out quite in-your-face with a refreshing honesty. The verses, even the entire chapters, which we as a society find distasteful and downright disturbing are there and [...]

Frances Carden2022-07-26T09:20:34-07:00July 17th, 2022|Tags: apologetic, Bible, book review, Christian, read, reading, review, reviews|