Journey Toward Justice 12

This chapter is titled ' Justice in the Old Testament'. The three ancient writers mentioned in the previous chapter derived their idea about just society from the Scripture that they read. In the Old Testament, which was a book given to ancient Israel and at present considered Holy Book by the Jews and the Christians, the topic of justice litters the text. Do justice; do justice; do justice is a recurring theme in the Old Testament Bible. And the group of people for whom Israel was mandated to seek justice consists of widows, foreigners, orphans and the poor. The quartet appears again and again. The rich people people too face injustice from time to time – being robbed, murdered, raped etc. But compared to this quartet, the injustice they face is not quite of same degree. For these four group of people injustice is everywhere and every moment, so to speak. Thus seeking justice in the Bible is about righting injustice and seeing it through the lens of the ones facing injustice, from the perspective of the victims. The Bible is not a philosophical textbook and so it does not attempt to provide a theory of justice. Nevertheless it speaks about seeking justice and seeking it from the perspective of the ones wronged.