{"id":62056,"date":"2019-08-30T16:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=62056"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T16:24:15","slug":"dangerously-close-to-pharaonic-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/dangerously-close-to-pharaonic-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerously Close To Pharaonic Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[469,835,591],"acf":{"old_id":"62056","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":39058,"related_cahpter":"296","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"What would you call a powerful monarchy which enslaves other peoples?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solomon is the most pharaonic monarch the Israelites ever had. The stability and prosperity of his reign makes his Israel the closest to an Egypt-level power that the Israelites ever achieved. Solomon also loved building and making other states his vassals. He builds the Temple, and the royal palace, and accomplishes these tasks on the back of ethnicity-based discrimination. The ethnic groups (Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) that we did not wipe away from the land were used as slave labor and\/or were specially taxed by Solomon for the purpose of finishing construction projects according to verse 21 of chapter 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are tremendous parallels between this model of statehood and the Egyptian model. Solomon is king in a time when Egypt is only beginning to recover from the late Bronze Age collapse. Solomon\u2019s governance was a Judaizing of what was and would continue to be the ideal government of civilizations for hundreds of years to come. A monarchy with disenfranchised ethnic populations could still be progressive in the 10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century BCE by focusing on the divinity of God rather than claiming the king is God, by not practicing human sacrifice, etc. Still, in this situation something irritates many modern observers. A community whose origin story is based on liberation from state-sponsored slavery does not look wise when they engage in similar practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To quote a truism made popular by Jewish comic writer and actor Mel Brooks, \u201cIt\u2019s good to be the king.\u201d But kings are limited and anachronistic in the 21<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century. For those of our Jewish communities who do not seek the restoration of monarchy, what would the Judaizing of modern governments look like? If our people went to a prophet today, what would they say rather than \u2018set a king over us\u2019? Would it look like the parliamentary system in Israel, or a president, or some other model? Maybe to solve this conundrum, we need a leader with the wisdom of Solomon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">image: Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867) &#8211; Wikicommons<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":50724,"id":50724,"title":"dt16-Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt","filename":"dt16-Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt16-Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-case-for-reparations\/dt16-edward_poynter_-_israel_in_egypt\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt16-edward_poynter_-_israel_in_egypt","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":50715,"date":"2019-03-04 19:20:39","modified":"2023-01-02 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