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Where do you see purges of bureaucratic bloat in the Old Testament?
by AnimalMuppet 9mo ago
Where do you see purges of bureaucratic bloat in the Old Testament?
- bell-cot 9mo agoIt's not spelled out, but my first thought is Genesis 40-41. In a regime where displeasing Pharaoh gets his personal servants imprisoned and killed, things do not look good for all those magicians and wise men who failed to interpret Pharaoh's dream. And likely similar for many who previously held authority over harvested grain. Daniel 2 is a fairly similar story. Nebuchadnezzar explicitly orders all of Babylon's wise men to be destroyed. Which is averted by Daniel - who ends up appointed as chief prefect over the wise men. Kinda hard to imagine that the new broom isn't gonna do some housecleaning there. (There are also passages where the OT is solidly pro-bureaucracy. Exodus 18, for example.) I'd bet there's plenty more, but I'm no biblical scholar.
- AnimalMuppet 9mo agoFair enough.