Re: israelite monotheism and isonomia

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Subject: Re: israelite monotheism and isonomia
From: Dierk van den Berg (haGalil@gmx.net)
Date: Sun Sep 19 2004 - 18:56:58 EDT 

For a patriarchal society of the first born ones isonomia has to be an
oxymoron.
But the control installation of the law is there ... a fact like the coke
that once felt from heaven on the head of a bushman. A sight for the gods,
either. Others may speculate where the coke in fact came from - I don't make
a bid..

_Dierk


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Horace Jeffery Hodges" <jefferyhodges@yahoo.com>
To: "First Century Judaism Discussion Forum" <ioudaios-l@Lehigh.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: israelite monotheism and isonomia


> This topic doesn't appear to be first-century Judaism,
> but my posting of Bellah's request seems to have
> spawned threads that I didn't expect. Anyway, I have a
> question about what is meant by isonomia here.
>
> I've also heard it said that the law of ancient Israel
> applied equally to all (isonomia?). The statement even
> appeared in a history text that I used last semester
> with my students in a Western civilization course.
>
> But the Israelite laws often do make distinctions. For
> example, penalties for killing a slave differ from
> those for killing a nonslave. And different purity
> laws apply to priests than to others. I'm sure that I
> could compile a list, chapter and verse, demonstrating
> this (if I had some time).
>
> So, what is meant by "isonomia" in this context of
> ancient Israelite law?
>
> Jeffery Hodges
>
> P.S. Have any books been written on this issue?
>
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