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Mauro Biglino speaks on massacres of yesterday and of today, using the Bible as history by pretending, for the reading, that it is true. He says Benjamin Netanyahu told listeners to remember Amalek, and he asks which god public speeches mean. Amalek stands in Esau’s line. In Exodus, Amalek fights Israel while Moses signals from a hill. In Samuel, Yahweh of armies orders Saul to strike Amalek without sparing people or animals. Saul keeps King Agag and the best livestock, and Biglino stresses the reply that obedience outranks sacrifice. Josephus, as he reads him, states war on every age of that people, from enmity and from a command too dangerous to refuse. Nicola Jaeger, in 1960, defended those acts in Law in the Bible as eternal principles, modest beside modern genocide. Biglino’s judgment is that using the line now is not justifiable, only understandable, and that finds in Israel are, for him, proof the Bible is history. These are his claims about a text and about politics.
Key points
- Biglino reads the Bible as his reference by treating the narrative, for the sake of the argument, as if it were true.
- He traces Amalek from Esau’s line to the battle in Exodus and to Saul’s war in Samuel.
- In the passage he reads, Yahweh demands total destruction, and Saul loses favor for sparing the king and the best animals.
- Josephus, in Biglino’s comparison, states a wider killing that he says the biblical chapter leaves quieter.
- He cites a 1960 Italian legal book that defended those acts, and he calls today’s use of the Amalek line understandable but not justified.
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Also because in my work you know that the Bible is the point of reference, pretending that it is true.
Mauro Biglino, Biglino on Amalek
He reads the Bible as his source while treating the narrative as if it were factual. Watch at 1:30
Moses said to Joshua: Choose some men for us and go out to battle against Amalek.
Mauro Biglino, Biglino on Amalek
The Exodus scene he cites sends Joshua into battle with Amalek. Watch at 3:30
First of all because they were enemies and then because there was God's command which it was dangerous to disobey.
Mauro Biglino, Biglino on Amalek
As he reads Josephus, the killing is excused by enmity and by divine orders. Watch at 11:49
That is, the extermination of entire populations were modest attempts made 3000 years ago compared to what we are capable of doing today.
Mauro Biglino, Biglino on Amalek
He compares ancient destruction with the scale of killing in the modern age. Watch at 18:34
Video by Mauro Biglino. Watch on YouTube.