I'm not a historian, but she has certainly oversimplified the writings of the Hebrew prophets: some of them are very "look, being kind to the widow and orphan and the alien in your land, mercy and justice and stuff is what the Lord wants" but there is also a really strong "hey, intermarriage is basically death and you, yes you personally need to avoid the unclean foreigners" strand. But that's at least partly because the gathering of various of the books into a canon was happening as a sort of attempt to construct a communal identity that made sense of the Babylonian exile...
So, yes, can confirm that it's All A Bit More Complicated, at least on the scriptural front, even though I'm not exactly a specialist there either.
I have a soft spot for Karen Armstrong as her work was a comfort to me at a point when I was re-exploring Christian faith, but I don't think I'd look to her for serious exegesis.
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Date: 2018-06-09 07:50 am (UTC)So, yes, can confirm that it's All A Bit More Complicated, at least on the scriptural front, even though I'm not exactly a specialist there either.
I have a soft spot for Karen Armstrong as her work was a comfort to me at a point when I was re-exploring Christian faith, but I don't think I'd look to her for serious exegesis.