TH141 - N

 Covenant = Partnership
o Establish an alternative community
 Israel
o Role model of god-centered community
 Alternative Community
1. Economic Equality
- Exodus 16: 13-18
- Deuteronomy 15: 7-8
- Deuteronomy 15 10-11
2. Politics of Justice
- Deuteronomy 16: 18-20
- Leviticus 19:15
- Exodus 18:21
3. A religion based on God’s Freedom, Compassion, and Fidelity
- Exodus 19:4-6
- Exodus 33:19
- Exodus 3 somethin
 Human’s Covenant Unfaithfulness
o Idolatry
 False gaods
o Social Injustice
 Breaking the Commandments
 It took 40nyears to reach Canaan
o Complaints
o Disobedience
 Sin of Idolatry
o Moses failed to reach Canaan
 He climbed the mountain to see Canaan
 Died in Moab
 The Judges time
o Practiced idolatry and social injustice
 The Kings Time
o Saul
o David
o Solomon
 Community during the Kings
o Economics of privilege
 1 Kings 4:22-23
 1 Kings 4:26-27
o Politics of Oppression
 1 Kings 5:13-14
 1 Kings 9:15
o Domestication of Religion and Use of Religion to legitimize
Justice
 1 Kings 11:1-8
 Prophet
o Being called by God

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 o Speaking in behalf of Yahweh and those who have no voice in
society
o Speak in poetry and prose (ministry of imagination)
o Shares divine pathos
o Task: Alternative Consciousness
 Prophetic Criticizing
 Prophetic Energizing and the emergent od amazement
 Justice
o Prophets
 inform our consciousness and conscience
 show denouncement of all forms of oppression and
injustice
 Nuisance
 Troubles for Israel
 Guide and Counselor
 After captivity
o According to SS
 Righteousness – Tzedakah
 Right relationships between people
 Treating people as an image and likeness of God
 Justice – Mishpat
 Retributive
o Pay consequences
 Restorative
o Seeking the disadvantaged and changing the
social structure

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  Wicked – Rasha
o Guilty of mistreating others and ignoring their
dignity
o According to Prophets
 Theological term
 Priority is rooted in their knowledge of Israel’s God
 Moral Value
 Righteousness
 Attainable