I don’t think I’d really appreciated how important YHWH’s liberation of the Israelites is for their worldview. So much of their ethics starts with “I rescued you from slavery so…”. The God of the Torah is a slave freer.
I don’t think I’d really appreciated how important YHWH’s liberation of the Israelites is for their worldview. So much of their ethics starts with “I rescued you from slavery so…”. The God of the Torah is a slave freer.