Genesis 37-39, wherein Joseph alive is worth only 10 silver pieces less than Jesus dead.
Psalm 13, wherein God is cried to, and then trusted.
Matthew 13, wherein weeding the garden is not recommended.
The fact that Joseph is sold by his brothers to slave traders for 20 pieces of silver, while Judas betrays Jesus for 30 pieces some several thousand years later suggests some sort of triumph for advocates of the gold standard. Left unstated is who is minting the coins. You don't have money without some sort of political system...the only one the text tells us about is Egypt. Would be interesting to know what the archaeology has to say about this.
Tamar's deception of Judah is remarkable for the fact that the text seems to take her side. At the same time it is very troubling that it was apparently ok for Judah to patronize a prostitute but a capital offense for Tamar to be one. And yet temple prostitutes were part of the landscape somehow. Is this a tribal/class thing?
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