Recently I have had to return to Matthew 5.38-39 and its background in the Hebrew Bible. Several times in fact. So I have decided to write about. If there ever was just one “notion” that Christians use to caricature the Hebrew Bible it is lex talionis.  It is a biased cultural staple deeply embedded in … Continue reading Eye for an Eye, Moses vs. Jesus and Lex Talionis: Word of Vengeance or Word of Grace?