In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible Ophir Adi M.
In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible Ophir Adi M. This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule…
Specifikacia In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible Ophir Adi M.
In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible Ophir Adi M.
This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule that these documents betray, with a special attention to the place of violence within it. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination.
The book draws from contemporary biblical scholarship, while also engaging critically with contemporary political theory and political theology, including the work of Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, Jan Assmann, Regina Schwartz, and Michael Walzer.Ophir focuses on three distinct theocratic formations: the rule of disaster, where catastrophes are used as means of governance; the biopolitical rule of the holy, where divine violence is spatially demarcated and personally targeted; and the rule of law where divine violence is vividly remembered and its
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