Description
Product ID: | 9781531501419 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory |
Title: | In the Beginning Was the State |
Subtitle: | Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible |
Authors: | Author: Adi M. Ophir |
Page Count: | 336 |
Subjects: | Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy, History of ideas, Political science and theory, History of ideas, Political science & theory |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 repressed theological dimension. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Fordham University Press |
Publisher Name: | Fordham University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-12-06 |