In the Old Testament, Israel was to be guided by the lex talionis (Latin for “the law of retaliation”). In modern usage, we might know this as the principle of an eye for an eye. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,...
Month: September 2024
The Sin of Pity
We love to smooth the “rough edges” of biblical revelation. To take what is beautiful in its complexity and to mass produce reductionistic, monolithic, and bite-sized maxims and cliches. We like to avoid theological tension, by watering down the word to some lowest...