15 the notion that an insignificant Semitic tribe
RESIDING
IN A DISTANT CORNER OF THE MIGHTY ROMAN EMPIRE
DEMANDED, & INDEED RECEIVED, SPECIAL TREATMENT FROM AN EMPEROR
WAS, FOR MANY ROMANS, SIMPLY
UNCOMPREHENSIBLE!
HOW DARE THEY
KEEP THEMSELVES SEPARATE FROM ALL OTHER NATIONS?
WHO DO THESE BACKWARD AND SUPERSTICIOUS TRIBESMEN THINK THEY ARE?
THE STOIC PHILOSOPHER SENECA WAS NOT ALONE AMONG THE ROMAN ELITE IN WONDERING
HOW IT HAD POSSIBLY COME TO PASS IN JERUSALEM THAT "THESE VANQUISHED
HAVE GIVEN LAWS TO
THE VICTORS!"?
For the Jews,
however, this sense of exceptionalism
was nòt a matter of arrogance or pride: it was a direct commandment
from a jealous God who tolerated no foreign presence in the land he had set aside for his chosen people!
That is why, when the Jews first came to this land a thousand years earlier, God had decreed that they massacre every man,
woman, and child they encountered, that they slaughter every ox, goat, and sheep they came across, that they burn every farm,
every field, every crop, every living thing without exception so as to ensure that the land would belong solely to those
who worshipped this one God
and no other.
"As for the towns of these people
that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance,"
'God' told the Israelites, "you must not let anything that breathes remain alive! You shall annihilate them all -
the Hittites & the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites & the Jebusites -
just as the Lord your God has commanded" {DEUT 20:17-18}!
It has indeed
the smell & look of ISIL/ISIS,
nazi's, dictators, Americans, British, Chinese, Dutch, Egyptians,
Fascists, Germans & hoplites, idiots, Jews, Kruisvaarders, Letten,
mongolen, nitwits, onmensen, Persians, Queer Russian Rebels,
Sadists, Terrorists, uitvreters, varkenshoeders,
wobs & xenophobes,
yuppies &
zombies.
IN A DISTANT CORNER OF THE MIGHTY ROMAN EMPIRE
DEMANDED, & INDEED RECEIVED, SPECIAL TREATMENT FROM AN EMPEROR
WAS, FOR MANY ROMANS, SIMPLY
UNCOMPREHENSIBLE!
HOW DARE THEY
KEEP THEMSELVES SEPARATE FROM ALL OTHER NATIONS?
WHO DO THESE BACKWARD AND SUPERSTICIOUS TRIBESMEN THINK THEY ARE?
THE STOIC PHILOSOPHER SENECA WAS NOT ALONE AMONG THE ROMAN ELITE IN WONDERING
HOW IT HAD POSSIBLY COME TO PASS IN JERUSALEM THAT "THESE VANQUISHED
HAVE GIVEN LAWS TO
THE VICTORS!"?
For the Jews,
however, this sense of exceptionalism
was nòt a matter of arrogance or pride: it was a direct commandment
from a jealous God who tolerated no foreign presence in the land he had set aside for his chosen people!
That is why, when the Jews first came to this land a thousand years earlier, God had decreed that they massacre every man,
woman, and child they encountered, that they slaughter every ox, goat, and sheep they came across, that they burn every farm,
every field, every crop, every living thing without exception so as to ensure that the land would belong solely to those
who worshipped this one God
and no other.
"As for the towns of these people
that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance,"
'God' told the Israelites, "you must not let anything that breathes remain alive! You shall annihilate them all -
the Hittites & the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites & the Jebusites -
just as the Lord your God has commanded" {DEUT 20:17-18}!
It has indeed
the smell & look of ISIL/ISIS,
nazi's, dictators, Americans, British, Chinese, Dutch, Egyptians,
Fascists, Germans & hoplites, idiots, Jews, Kruisvaarders, Letten,
mongolen, nitwits, onmensen, Persians, Queer Russian Rebels,
Sadists, Terrorists, uitvreters, varkenshoeders,
wobs & xenophobes,
yuppies &
zombies.
18 nov 2015 - bewerkt op 20 nov 2015
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