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    Biblical Law: Divine Justice
    Biblical Law: Divine Justice
    Biblical Law: Divine Justice
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    Biblical Law: Divine Justice

    By Ed Hurst

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    If you are going to understand what the Bible says, it helps if you reconstruct the intellectual climate of the folks who wrote it. Just because you read an English translation of an ancient Hebrew document doesn't mean you can understand it. This short booklet seeks to recover as much of that ancient viewpoint as possible for modern Western minds. Law in the Bible was not simply decree or legislation, but an expression of the moral character of a loving God, woven into His Creation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEd Hurst
    Release dateMar 22, 2015
    ISBN9781311298799
    Biblical Law: Divine Justice
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    Ed Hurst

    Born 18 September 1956 in Seminole, OK. Traveled a great deal in Europe with the US Army, worked a series of odd jobs, and finally in public education. Ordained to the ministry as a Baptist, then with a non-denominational endorsement. Currently semi-retired.

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      Biblical Law - Ed Hurst

      Biblical Law: Divine Justice

      By Ed Hurst

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      Copyright 2015 by Ed Hurst

      Copyright notice: People of honor need no copyright laws; they are only too happy to give credit where credit is due. Others will ignore copyright laws whenever they please. If you are of the latter, please note what Moses said about dishonorable behavior – be sure your sin will find you out (Numbers 32:23)

      Permission is granted to copy, reproduce and distribute for non-commercial reasons, provided the book remains in its original form.

      Cover Art: The Ark Passes Over the Jordan by James Jacques Joseph Tissot in the Jewish Museum, New York City. Public domain image.

      Biblical Law: Divine Justice

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 – Biblical Logic

      Chapter 2 – Justice as Proposal

      Chapter 3 – Basic Biblical Law Code

      Chapter 4 – Feudalism or Futility

      Chapter 5 – Property

      Chapter 6 – Far Away

      Chapter 7 – Hostile World

      Chapter 8 – What Now?

      Introduction

      Chances are that divine justice is not at all what you might think it is.

      Most likely you bear a wealth of assumptions about law, justice and reality itself that are foreign to Scripture. Most people seem unable to recognize that the Bible is an Ancient Near Eastern book arising from an Ancient Near Eastern religion. That cultural and historical background is radically different from the Western world. Even people who know this intellectually have a very difficult time fleshing out the implications in their own mind. They are so overwhelmingly pickled in Western Civilization that they cannot even imagine that their basic assumptions are not generic, not at all the default in terms of human history.

      More importantly, modern Western assumptions about divine justice are frankly hostile to what Scripture teaches. Because the vast majority of Western Christians inject their Western bias back into the Bible, it becomes quite a task to explain justice from the biblical viewpoint. Rather than belabor so much the failure of the Western assumptions (as covered in my book, A Course in Biblical Mysticism), we

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