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That no human ruler can claim the same degree of allegiance that God claims; that God's kingship or suzerainty relativizes all human regimes; that all human political arrangements, even the most just and humane, fall short of the kingdom of God: these are ideas that have reverberated over the centuries and into our own time.
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For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
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Jon Douglas Levenson is an American Hebrew Bible scholar who is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at the Harvard Divinity School.
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Sinai and Zion
Creation and the persistence of evil
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel
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