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In the Beginning Was the State

- Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Af: Adi M. Ophir Engelsk Hardback

In the Beginning Was the State

- Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Af: Adi M. Ophir Engelsk Hardback
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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 attention to the place of violence within it. 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 return is projected, anticipated, and yet postponed, creating a prolonged lull for the text’s present.
Different as these formations are, Ophir shows how they share an urform that anticipates the main outlines of the modern European state, which has monopolized the entire globe. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in revisiting the deification of the state, unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.

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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 attention to the place of violence within it. 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 return is projected, anticipated, and yet postponed, creating a prolonged lull for the text’s present.
Different as these formations are, Ophir shows how they share an urform that anticipates the main outlines of the modern European state, which has monopolized the entire globe. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in revisiting the deification of the state, unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781531501402
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1531501400
Kategori: Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie
Udg. Dato: 6 dec 2022
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Fordham University Press
Oplagsdato: 6 dec 2022
Forfatter(e): Adi M. Ophir
Forfatter(e) Adi M. Ophir

Kategori Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie

ISBN-13 9781531501402

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 6 dec 2022

Oplagsdato 6 dec 2022

Forlag Fordham University Press

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