stories show that it certainly does claim every individual), but social. He evaluates the moral health of society as a whole, from international treaties to market economies, from military strategy to local court procedures, from national politics to the local harvest. This dimension of the message of the Old Testament would vibrate from Matthew’s list of kings, since so many of them were associated with (not to say, the victims of) the unforgettable rhetoric of the great prophets of the monarchy
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