System Failure

System Failure

The Meaning of Liberty

An Untold Story of Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age

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Nathan Knopp
Jan 06, 2025
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This part of the System Failure constellation of ideas explores how the Fall of Rome shaped Christianity. Death and rebirth are central to that religion, both in its mythology—the story of Jesus is about coming back from the dead—and in its history. Christianity resurrected much older Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions, dusted them off, and transported t…

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