Western Roots All Mixed Up

[IainH]

He opines that feudalism wasn't inherent in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. It's as if such writers are refusing to recognize that Hebrew society was feudal, and that God's revelation was also feudal.

Do you think this error is just a matter of language? ANE feudalism isn't explicit in scripture, though it's demonstrated in not so many words throughout. Scholars would be aware of it, but someone like BM may not be.

EDIT: I mean "Biblical scholar" when I said "scholar." BM seems to be an academic but I don't know if Biblical history or the like is his expertise.

After perusing his blog, I can think of something else that fits the initials BM, the Japanese used to use it as fertilizer until modern chemical fertilizer improved the smell of their farmland.
I used to hold the same political views, even carrying my Cato Institute pocket us constitution everywhere I went back in the nineties. After the Clinton impeachment debacle, I realized that as long as people had their "bread & circuses", they didn't care.