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I have Religion class called RELB-170, I want you to answer all the questions correctly
Based on W. Brueggeman’s text Sabbath as Resistance.
- The Key Idea of the Preface and the chapter 1
PREFACE and SABBATH AND THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
- Brueggeman cites Patrick Miller’s observation that in the Bible the fourth commandment on Sabbath is the crucial bridge that connects the Ten Commandments together. Why?
- In what way is the Sabbath commandment drawn into the Exodus narrative?
- What is implicit in the reality of God’s willingness to engage in Sabbath rest?
- Brueggemann contends that ancient Egypt’s socioeconomic system must be understood to understand our God.
- What parallels do you see between that system and our own socioeconomic system?
- Would you say we live in a system where people are commodities to be dispatched for endless production or where they are subjects situated in an economy of neighborliness? Why?
- The Key Idea of chapter 2
SABBATH AS RESISTANCE TO ANXIETY
Exodus 20:12-17
- Why did Sabbath become a powerful tool
of resistance to anxiety for ancient Israelites?
- What resources are there in the Sabbath
commandment to become a powerful resistance tool
against anxiety to us in the 21st century?
- The Key Idea of Chapter 3
SABBATH AS RESISTANCE TO COERCION
Deuteronomy 5:12 – 14
- What was distinctive about how the Sabbath commandment was stated? What are the implications of exercising dominion over the earth?
- Why does Moses consider the land of Canaan a temptation and a seduction?
- What is meant by Brueggeman’s statement that prosperity breeds amnesia?
- What does Brueggeman mean by “the coercion of producing and consuming”?
- Respond to Brueggeman’s list of things in the chapter that we are no longer coerced into doing under the Sabbath commandment?
- The Key Idea of Chapter 4
SABBATH AS RESISTANCE TO EXCLUSIVISM
Isaiah 56: 3-8
- What are the two great interpretative traditions of Torah?
- What is new in the promise and the principle of Isaiah 56: 3-8 as compared to the old Mosaic law in Deuteronomy?
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