Subject: coke bottles and isonomia
From: Richard Landes (rlandes@bu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2004 - 08:59:46 EDT
At 08:36 AM 9/20/2004, you wrote: >Excursus: >The American democracy has fallen like a coke bomb on Iraq. >If the framework is good enough (dunno), much later archaeologists will >probably dig out the unique Democratic Codex of Iraq >Nobody would ever believe that its vorlage once has fallen from heaven. true. that's why the narrative is so impressive. clearly the ten commandments fell like a coke bottle from heaven (so much so that the till-then steady and largely chronological narrative collapses) and the forty years of tutelage in the desert were in preparation for living according to such radical and outside of israel, unthinkable rules. the ability of jews to survive without sovereignty can, i believe, be understood as in part a product of not needing coercion to adhere as a polity. >Take this with two pinches of salt how'd i do? r
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