In the beginning was the state : divine violence in the Hebrew Bible /

This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule that these documents betray, with a special attent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ophir, Adi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2023.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Idiom (Fordham University Press)
Temas:
Bible. > Pentateuch > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Pentateuque > Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible. > Pentateuch
Violence in the Bible.
Jewish Studies.
Political Science.
Religion.
Violence dans la Bible.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
Violence in the Bible
Religion & beliefs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Staying with the violence
  • 2. Theocracy : the persistence of an ancient lacuna
  • 3. The rule of disaster : extinction, genocides, and other calamities
  • 4. Holy power : states of exception, targeted killings, and the logic of substitution
  • 5. The time of the covenant and the temporalization of biolence
  • Afterword : the Pentateuchal state, and ours

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