Big Ideas · 21 · Yhwh and His People
'It's the rule book'
In the film Bridge of Spies, a lawyer tells a colleague: you're Italian, I'm Irish, what makes us Americans is the rule book. Biblical kinship works the same way.
Story creates kinship; law sustains it.
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Ancient treaties called partners 'brothers.' Biblical kinship is likewise chosen, framed by covenant rather than blood. Families quarrel, so they need shared rules. And law means little without a story, so the Bible embeds its laws in a story of liberation.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 348–350
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