RELIGST 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Book Of Deuteronomy, Cattle, Christian Ethics
13 Nov 2013
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Land is polluted by this incestuous relationship; in order for land to be delivered from the plague, the pollution has to be removed (king married to mother must be banished) Deuteronomy 21: mysterious murder, but do not know killer have to atone by taking heifer and breaking its neck. Oedipus innocent, yet ought not to have happened; whole land polluted until something is done to banish pollution, everyone will suffer. Deuteronomy cannot allow for unresolved murder, because it will pollute the community; god graciously provides a means by which they can atone for the wrongdoing that has been done so that not everyone suffers. Wrongdoing is not only a crime by the standards of the law; it is a wrongdoing that pollutes the whole land (introduce something out of order and must be dealt with) Important to find wrongdoer so that person shall bear his iniquity not everyone has to suffer.
