Sinai Covenant

Covenants: Lasting Implications of an Unoriginal Concept Covenants can be found all through history. Even today covenants are created all the time between individuals and whole societies. The United States is under the obligation of covenants with nearly every nation of the world, either concerning military treaties or trade embargos. So too can covenants be found in the histories of all the world's great civilizations. These historical covenants can very often be directly paralleled with …

…structure (as seen with the Hittite Suzerainty-Vassal treaties), but are still regarded by many to speak true today. The Sinai covenant is one of the best-known covenants in history, and I used to regard it as a completely original concept, but it followed exactly the structure of the covenants of the time period. Although it was not completely original, the meaning and implications of the Sinai covenant are some of the most important in history.