💬 Opinion 2d ago · Steve Apfel

Pharaoh’s Successors: When Liberation Becomes a Lecture

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A people liberated from slavery after 220 years are forged into a conquering force. The biblical Exodus is more than God’s dramatic rescue of the Israelite tribes. The Festival of Freedom, by the name itself, is intensely political. Real freedom cannot exist without justice, equity, ethics, and a government to secure the common good. In words that soar Paul Johnson in History of The Jews describes the birth and historical struggle of the Israelites as a, “Perennial attempt to give human life the

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