To be clear: I’m not suggesting that the covenant God made with Israel at Mount Sinai was flawed. Just the opposite. When understood in its ancient context, it was brilliant! The civil and religious law detailed in God’s arrangement with ancient Israel was superior in every way to the civil and religious law of the surrounding nations. The Torah provided protections for the most vulnerable. This was nothing short of revolutionary in its original context. Women, servants, foreigners, and children all fared better under Hebrew law than did their counterparts in surrounding regions.
