"An eye for an eye" gets treated like proof of ancient barbarism, the thing Jesus supposedly had to rescue everyone from. Except that's not really what's happening.
Not in Hammurabi's Babylon, where this formula shows up centuries before Moses.
Not in the Talmud, where the rabbis spend two pages arguing about whether it was ever meant literally.
And not in Matthew 5, where Yeshua is doing something a lot more interesting than simply overturning a harsh old law.
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