Hondenzonen of 'kinderen van g*d'? Re: Tiamat 17-3
The account
of Solomon's magnificence
given in the Books of Kings and Chronicles
is questioned by many critics.
They say that it was added to and exaggerated by
the patriotic pride of later writers.
But the Bible account
read carefully
is not so overwhelming as it appears
at the first reading.
Solomon's temple, if one works out the measurements,
would go inside a small suburban church,
and his fourteen hundred chariots cease to impress us
when we learn from an Assyrian monument
that his successor Achav sent a contingent of 2000
to the Assyrian army.
It is also plainly manifest
from the Bible narrative that Solomom spent himself in display
and overtaxed and overworked his people.
At his death
the northern part of his kingdom broke off from Jerusalem
and became the independent kingdom of Israel.
Jerusalem remained the capital city
of Judah.
@
The prosperity
of the Hebrew people
was shortlived!
King Hiram died,
and the help of Tyre ceased
to strengthen Jerusalem.
Egypt grew strong again ...
The history of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah
becomes a history of two little states
ground between, first, Syria, then Assyria and then Babylon to the north
and Egypt to the south.
It is a tale of disasters and of deliverances that only
delayed disaster .............
It is a tale of barbaric kings ruling a barbaric people.
In 721 B.C. the kingdom of Israel
was swept away
into captivity by the Assyrians
and its people utterly lost to history.
Judah struggled on
until in 604 B.C., as we have already told several times,
it shared the fate of Israel!
There may be details
open to criticism in the Bible story of Hebrew history
from the days of the Judges onward,
but on the whole it is evidently a true story
which squares with all that has been learned in the excavation of Egypt
and Assyria and Babylon during the past century ........
@
It was in Babylon
that the Hebrew people
got their history together and
evolved their tradition.
The people who came back to Jerusalem
at the command of Cyrus
were a very different people in spirit and knowledge
from those who had gone into captivity!
They had learned civilisation ...
In the development
of their particular character
a very great part was played by certain men,
a new sort of men,
the prophets,
to whom we must now direct
our attention.
These prophets
mark the appearance of new and remarkable forces
in the steady development of
human society ...
@
Up to this very day
their visions have encouraged
all kinds of very different people
all over the world
to view justice, love and cooperation
as the central point of a more humane existence
towards which we all have to strive
in order to survive,
@
After all
it is not the strength of weapons and dictatorship
that determines our common future
but the power of understanding and consideration that point
into the direction we have
to move forward to.
@
The insights in what it really means
to become human
stem from this characterisation of human life.
And the pressures from centuries of nearly unbearable violence
by the surrounding 'big' powers has encouraged
our hope for the future.
@
In our daily myDi-life
as well as in the relations between nations
it is the example given by Yeshu {the Jew}, that has impressed
upon people the possibilities
for a more humane society and realistic human relations
by people of all ages and
backgrounds.
@
Not
the evil powers of atomic,
biological and chemical warfare can safeguard life on earth,
not Mutually Assured Destruction by World Powers to be,
but the soft strength of individual human beings
that learn to appreciate clean water,
air, food and understanding relations between
all human beings on earth can do
what the former Powers to Be
cannot guarantee.
@
In the small details
of our own daily myDi-life
we are able to find the seeds that those prophets of thousands of years ago have been sowing and nourishing:
nowhere else.
THAT is all
that really counts:
human justice by love and understanding -
nothing else is as important as
THIS.
of Solomon's magnificence
given in the Books of Kings and Chronicles
is questioned by many critics.
They say that it was added to and exaggerated by
the patriotic pride of later writers.
But the Bible account
read carefully
is not so overwhelming as it appears
at the first reading.
Solomon's temple, if one works out the measurements,
would go inside a small suburban church,
and his fourteen hundred chariots cease to impress us
when we learn from an Assyrian monument
that his successor Achav sent a contingent of 2000
to the Assyrian army.
It is also plainly manifest
from the Bible narrative that Solomom spent himself in display
and overtaxed and overworked his people.
At his death
the northern part of his kingdom broke off from Jerusalem
and became the independent kingdom of Israel.
Jerusalem remained the capital city
of Judah.
@
The prosperity
of the Hebrew people
was shortlived!
King Hiram died,
and the help of Tyre ceased
to strengthen Jerusalem.
Egypt grew strong again ...
The history of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah
becomes a history of two little states
ground between, first, Syria, then Assyria and then Babylon to the north
and Egypt to the south.
It is a tale of disasters and of deliverances that only
delayed disaster .............
It is a tale of barbaric kings ruling a barbaric people.
In 721 B.C. the kingdom of Israel
was swept away
into captivity by the Assyrians
and its people utterly lost to history.
Judah struggled on
until in 604 B.C., as we have already told several times,
it shared the fate of Israel!
There may be details
open to criticism in the Bible story of Hebrew history
from the days of the Judges onward,
but on the whole it is evidently a true story
which squares with all that has been learned in the excavation of Egypt
and Assyria and Babylon during the past century ........
@
It was in Babylon
that the Hebrew people
got their history together and
evolved their tradition.
The people who came back to Jerusalem
at the command of Cyrus
were a very different people in spirit and knowledge
from those who had gone into captivity!
They had learned civilisation ...
In the development
of their particular character
a very great part was played by certain men,
a new sort of men,
the prophets,
to whom we must now direct
our attention.
These prophets
mark the appearance of new and remarkable forces
in the steady development of
human society ...
@
Up to this very day
their visions have encouraged
all kinds of very different people
all over the world
to view justice, love and cooperation
as the central point of a more humane existence
towards which we all have to strive
in order to survive,
@
After all
it is not the strength of weapons and dictatorship
that determines our common future
but the power of understanding and consideration that point
into the direction we have
to move forward to.
@
The insights in what it really means
to become human
stem from this characterisation of human life.
And the pressures from centuries of nearly unbearable violence
by the surrounding 'big' powers has encouraged
our hope for the future.
@
In our daily myDi-life
as well as in the relations between nations
it is the example given by Yeshu {the Jew}, that has impressed
upon people the possibilities
for a more humane society and realistic human relations
by people of all ages and
backgrounds.
@
Not
the evil powers of atomic,
biological and chemical warfare can safeguard life on earth,
not Mutually Assured Destruction by World Powers to be,
but the soft strength of individual human beings
that learn to appreciate clean water,
air, food and understanding relations between
all human beings on earth can do
what the former Powers to Be
cannot guarantee.
@
In the small details
of our own daily myDi-life
we are able to find the seeds that those prophets of thousands of years ago have been sowing and nourishing:
nowhere else.
THAT is all
that really counts:
human justice by love and understanding -
nothing else is as important as
THIS.
01 jul 2004 - bewerkt op 09 jan 2008
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