Old Testament

The dialectic is basically two opposing sides of an argument.  Thesis and anti-thesis and its outcome synthesis. Well if you think there is an argument for what is good then you should also agree that there must be an argument that is bad or evil. In a perfect world this argument would play out in an open forum but in a realistic world the evil component would of course be better served if it remained occult, secret or hidden. 

The arguments of this dialectic are both strong. We often hear of why its good to be good but we rarely hear why its good to be bad. 

The silence about Ezra in the dead sea scrolls: where do we go from here.

51:15  "you did not remove the evil heart from them, in order that your law would produce fruits in them" 4 Ezra 320   

From... http://www.patmospapers.com/daniel/457.htm

1. The decree of Cyrus recorded in Ezra 1:1-4.

16 “Dan[a] will provide justice for his people
   as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan will be a snake by the roadside,
   a viper along the path,

From biblegateway
 
2 Chronicles 9:21 (New International Version) Page Options Add parallel << < = = > >> 2 Chronicles 9:21 New International Version (NIV) 21 The king had a fleet of trading ships[a] manned by Hiram’s[b] servants. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.

Footnotes:

The famous story about the Great Flood is best known from the Bible (Genesis 6-9).

It has always been known that there were similar stories from Greece and Rome (like the ones by Apollodorus, Ovid, and Hyginus), but in the nineteenth century, several texts from ancient Iraq were added. The first discovery was Tablet XI of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgameš (in 1872), the second the Sumerian original, now called the Eridu Genesis (1914), and the third the Epic of Atrahasis (1956). It is now clear that the Biblical account stays close to a Babylonian model.

 7Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
 8The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.

Writen in the time of Moses 1400 BC 

Deuteronomy 23: 19-22

 ¹⁹Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

 ²⁰Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

790 to 680 BC

Isaiah 60:10-12 (King James Version)

 ¹⁰And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

 ¹¹Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.