I’ve been re-reading Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. It’s like the Old Testament in space.
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The Old Testament as Foundation Series, and the Law as Seldon Plan:
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Many Christians read the Old Testament with an eye to making all the violence “okay”. This gets in the way of seeing how brilliant it is.
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Foundation Trilogy = Bible
Hari Seldon = Moses
Psychohistory = Law
Terminus = Israel
Seldon Crises = Exile
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First Foundation = Judges of Israel
Second Foundation = Prophets of Israel
The Mule = Cyrus the Great
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Yeah, I know, but the amount of self-theorizing the Old Testament does seems pretty Asimovian.
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