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Walter Brueggemann - Kingdom vs. Cash? (N153)

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The Market's View of Our Neighbors

In Joshua 7 and 8 Akken is convicted of sneaking gold out of the common treasury. In that very primitive story Akken's theft produces a military defeat for Israel. I always think that the story of Ananiasan's Sophia in Acts 5 is a retelling of the Akken story, where Sophia withheld money from the church treasury and it brought death. Those are those are over simple stories that make the connection about how the misuse of money leads disaster in the community.

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