{"id":7201,"date":"2023-02-22T05:41:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T10:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:36:11","slug":"115-inventing-god-and-law-yahweh-only-yahweh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=7201","title":{"rendered":"115. Inventing God and Law: Yahweh. Only Yahweh."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1543\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg107-Yahweh-Part-I.webp\" alt=\"Legitimized by his newfound &quot;Book of the Law,&quot; Josiah firmed up his power as absolute ruler. That meant eliminating the competition\u2014Yahweh's competition!\" class=\"wp-image-9920\" style=\"width:1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg107-Yahweh-Part-I.webp 1200w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pt02pg107-Yahweh-Part-I-768x988.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Words words words words words words words\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6ad7a6355e4ac9095355174' value='6ad7a6355e4ac9095355174'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6ad7a6355e4ac9095355174' value='View Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6ad7a6355e4ac9095355174' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6ad7a6355e4ac9095355174' ><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Constitutional Law<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Part 2: \u201cWhat Were They Thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Digression: \u201cA History of Government in 6 Revolutions: From the Paleolithic to Philadelphia\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">115. Inventing God and Law: Yahweh. Only Yahweh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Title: Part I: Yahweh. Only Yahweh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Panel 1: The golden doors of the temple are open, revealing the interior with its Mesopotamian-influenced designs, including an Asherah tree that resembles a menorah. Inside the temple, people are hauling out the statue of a god seated on a throne. Outside, people are hauling a sun god\u2019s chariot, complete with golden disc, up the steps to the altar. At the top of the altar, a man is toppling a statue of Ba\u2019al with a golden head and Egyptian-style crown into a blazing fire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Endorsed by the temple priests, the discovered \u201cBook of the Law\u201d now justified a massive cultic reform throughout Yehudah: The absolute <strong>eradication<\/strong> of everything that wasn\u2019t <strong>Yahweh<\/strong>. They started by removing and <strong>burning<\/strong> all the temple idols.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">MEN INSIDE TEMPLE:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Even this one? Of Yahweh himself?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">MAN AT ALTAR:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Man-made<\/strong> things? We only worship Yahweh, whom <strong>nobody<\/strong> made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Toss it on the fire, boys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">-=-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Panel 2: The countryside all around Jerusalem. Smoke rises from every hilltop. In the foreground, a horned altar and an Asherah pole have been burned to cinders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">To focus the religion (and centralize the government) on the temple in Jerusalem, they <strong>destroyed<\/strong> all other altars, every hilltop shrine and its Asherah, all the idols in every little place\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">-=-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Panel 3: Sis and Joe as talking heads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">They <strong>abolished<\/strong> the cult prostitutes, the oracles, child sacrifice\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SIS (shocked):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Child <strong>what?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">JOE:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Child sacrifice. It was commonplace in that whole region, and despite Josiah\u2019s best efforts, it wouldn\u2019t really die out here until well into the post-exile period. You\u2019d sacrifice a woman\u2019s firstborn to Yahweh, to ensure that she\u2019d have many more children. You\u2019d sacrifice beloved children to various gods in satisfaction of a vow. Kings would sacrifice sons to ensure protection of their kingdom (Josiah switched to animal sacrifice). And oh! did you know \u201cPassover\u201d was a common euphemism for child sacrifice? That adds some interesting context to the Exodus sto\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I\u2019ll shut up now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">-=-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Panel 4: Josiah gestures with irritation towards a large stone horned altar behind him, where two priests are burning the body of another person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u2026and they <strong>slaughtered<\/strong> the priests of all other gods, burning their remains on their own altars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">PRIEST 1:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Let\u2019s see how their gods like <strong>this<\/strong> offering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">PRIEST 2:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Heh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">You\u2019re fired!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Josiah\u2019s rule was now <strong>absolute,<\/strong> and made legitimate by Yahweh\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">JOSIAH:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Who can complain?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I\u2019m only doing what God wants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">JOSIAH:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cFired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Very funny. Toss him on there, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">-=-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Panel 5: With a THOK!, a young David shoots Goliath in the head with a bullet from a sling. As Solomon looks on, two women pull on an infant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As a rule, new political realities require new <strong>founding myths.<\/strong> Josiah\u2019s kingdom was no exception. So stories now told of long-ago glory days\u2014of an astonishingly wealthy and powerful \u201cunited kingdom,\u201d ruled by the larger-than-life epic heroes David and Solomon. (No such kingdom had ever really <strong>existed,<\/strong> but that wasn\u2019t the point.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">SOLOMON:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Time to split the baby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">WOMAN 1:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Don\u2019t split the baby!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">WOMAN 2:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Split the baby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NARRATION:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Plus, it fostered <strong>team spirit<\/strong> in a people who were still forming a new, unified ethnic identity of their own. Tales of splendor offered a way to boast \u201clook how awesome <strong>we<\/strong> once were,\u201d and \u201csee how awesome we could <strong>be!<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6ad7a6355e4ac9095355174' class='bg-showmore-plg-link bg-arrow '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>View Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. 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