QUOTE OF THE DAY DECEMBER 28, 2014: At the heart of every Near Eastern world-view was a sense of immutability. Elaborated by priests and theologians, these world-views were adopted happily enough by those belonging to the upper strata of society: for monarchs and administrators and scribes they served to justify a social order that brought such manifest benefits to the privileged. But that does not mean that they were repudiated by the common people. After all, the concern with order and chaos reflected a very general experience of the way things were...For succour people relied on the state---which was almost always a monarchy. Oppressive as it was , the state nevertheless stood for order. (Norman Cohn. Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, 3.)
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