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S3 EP:19 - What is Faith? With Dr. Teresa Morgan

Everyday Theology

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Confessions Across the Ancient World

confession across the ancient world has often been seen as a very sort of Jewish and Christian thing. Confession deli are about people admitting a mistake they've made to a god in order to get that the god will let them off the hook like a benevolent judge hoping the god the god will turn into a benevolent judge rather than that they're confessing a sin towards the god as it were. The whole phenomenon of people admitting well admitting some way in which they failed confessing is a very interesting phenomenon in itself.

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