Category: Obadiah
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Obadiah and the perils of schadenfreude
Taking a break from New Testament letters, today I’m looking at the minor prophet in the Old Testament called Obadiah. A big theme of the Obadiah’s written down prophesy, which forms the smallest book in the Old Testament, is that of schadenfreude. This is “pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune” according to the…