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. Ophir shows how the Bible's varied formations of divine violence anticipate the main outlines of the modern European state. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in unpacking its mostly represse...

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Autor principal: Ophir, Adi M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Staying with the Violence -- Divine Violence-A Trailer -- A Brief Note on Counting and Explaining Away -- Violence, as It Is Unfolding: A Phenomenological Sketch -- Literal Reading and the Biblical Language of Violence -- 2. Theocracy: The Persistence of an Ancient Lacuna -- Theocracy, with and beyond Flavius Josephus -- The Blind Spot: Three Contemporary Readings of Biblical Violence -- On the Attribution of Power and Authority -- Kingship, Anarchy, Theocracy -- Hypothesis, Method, and Stakes 
505 0 |a 3. The Rule of Disaster: Extinction, Genocides, and Other Calamities -- Becoming Political -- From Extinction to Genocide -- Beyond Destruction -- Separation and Disaster -- Violence and Law -- The Sovereign's Moment -- Scouts in the Land of the Giants: Three Theocratic Formations -- 4. Holy Power: States of Exception, Targeted Killings, and the Logic of Substitution -- Holiness -- Rebellions in the Wilderness -- Substitution and Containment -- 5. The Time of the Covenant and the Temporalization of Violence -- The Experimental Setting: Recalling Violence and Regulating It 
505 0 |a The Covenant and the Curses -- The Weight of the Present -- The Subjects' Trap, or the People's Irony -- A Midianite Utopia -- Afterword: The Pentateuchal State, and Ours -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author -- Series 
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