In the Beginning Was the State

In the Beginning Was the State

Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible

Ophir, Adi M.

Fordham University Press

12/2022

336

Dura

Inglês

9781531501402

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments | vii

Introduction | 1

1. Staying with the Violence | 13

Divine Violence-A Trailer, 13 * A Brief Note on Counting and Explaining

Away, 21 * Violence, as It Is Unfolding: A Phenomenological Sketch, 24 *

Literal Reading and the Biblical Language of Violence, 36

2. Theocracy: The Persistence of an Ancient Lacuna | 45

Theocracy, with and beyond Flavius Josephus, 45 * The Blind Spot:

Three Contemporary Readings of Biblical Violence, 53 * On the

Attribution of Power and Authority, 74 * Kingship, Anarchy,

Theocracy, 79 * Hypothesis, Method, and Stakes, 86

3. The Rule of Disaster: Extinction, Genocides, and Other Calamities | 96

Becoming Political, 96 * From Extinction to Genocide, 99 *

Beyond Destruction, 105 * Separation and Disaster, 113 *

Violence and Law, 124 * The Sovereign's Moment, 130 * Scouts

in the Land of the Giants: Three Theocratic Formations, 139

4. Holy Power: States of Exception, Targeted Killings, and the Logic of Substitution | 145

Holiness, 145 * Rebellions in the Wilderness, 160 * Substitution

and Containment, 178

5. The Time of the Covenant and the Temporalization of Violence | 193

The Experimental Setting: Recalling Violence and Regulating It, 196 *

The Covenant and the Curses, 204 * The Weight of the Present, 214 *

The Subjects' Trap, or the People's Irony, 222 * A Midianite Utopia, 230

Afterword: The Pentateuchal State, and Ours | 241

Notes | 257

Works Cited | 317

Index | 335
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divine violence; Hebrew Bible; monotheism; political theology; political theory; rule by disaster; sovereignty; state; theocracy; theopolitics