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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.

  1. The Key Idea of the Preface and the chapter 1

PREFACE and SABBATH AND THE FIRST COMMANDMENT

  1. 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?
  1. 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?
  1. The Key Idea of chapter 2

SABBATH AS RESISTANCE TO ANXIETY

Exodus 20:12-17

  1. Why did Sabbath become a powerful tool

of resistance to anxiety for ancient Israelites?

  1. What resources are there in the Sabbath

commandment to become a powerful resistance tool

against anxiety to us in the 21st century?

  1. The Key Idea of Chapter 3

SABBATH AS RESISTANCE TO COERCION

Deuteronomy 5:12 – 14

  1. What was distinctive about how the Sabbath commandment was stated? What are the implications of exercising dominion over the earth?
  2. Why does Moses consider the land of Canaan a temptation and a seduction?
  3. What is meant by Brueggeman’s statement that prosperity breeds amnesia?
  4. What does Brueggeman mean by “the coercion of producing and consuming”?
  5. Respond to Brueggeman’s list of things in the chapter that we are no longer coerced into doing under the Sabbath commandment?

  1. The Key Idea of Chapter 4

SABBATH AS RESISTANCE TO EXCLUSIVISM

Isaiah 56: 3-8

  1. What are the two great interpretative traditions of Torah?

  1. 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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