God's politics: Three political experiments found in Genesis and Exodus

My thesis is an examination of three political experiments of governance located in the first two books of the Old Testament of the Bible. The first two political experiments, which I call Artificial Politics and Personal Politics, must be considered failures because God, the ruler, fails to create a political structure that satisfies the masses or Himself. Both of these experiments are learning experiments that God uses to create the third experiment, which I entitle Mountain Politics. In this experiment, God successfully creates a form of governance that has lasted well over 2000 years by satisfying the masses and God. The importance of this thesis is that it makes the political theorist reexamine the origin of many political ideas that have thought to originate with other political philosophers. This thesis could help in reevaluating the impact the Bible has had on politics.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1998

Author dc:creator

• Peace, Ashley MacLaren

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gary Jones

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/962

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1961