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Single Idea 7337

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy]

Full Idea

In Mosaic legal theory, all breaches of the law offend God. All crimes are sins, just as all sins are crimes.

Gist of Idea

In Mosaic legal theory, crimes are sins and sins are crimes

Source

Paul Johnson (The History of the Jews [1987], Pt I)

Book Reference

Johnson,Paul: 'A History of the Jews' [Phoenix 1993], p.33


A Reaction

This would seem to define Josephus called a 'theocracy'. Not just rule by a priesthood, but also an attempt to make civil law coincide with the teachings of sacred texts. But doing 80 m.p.h. on a motorway at 2 a.m. hardly seems like a sin.