In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible - Paperback
by Adi M. Ophir
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Availability:In StockContributor:Adi M. OphirSeries:Idiom: Inventing Writing TheoryPublish date:2022-12-06Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531501419ISBN-10:1531501419UPC:9781531501419Book Category:Political Science, Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:History & Theory, Movements, Biblical StudiesBook Topic:Critical Theory, Old TestamentSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SC3FBPBY5C
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. 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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9781531501419ISBN-10:1531501419UPC:9781531501419Book Category:Political Science, Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:History & Theory, Movements, Biblical StudiesBook Topic:Critical Theory, Old TestamentSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SC3FBPBY5C
Adi M. Ophir is a Visiting Professor at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University and Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. Among his works are Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile, co-authored with Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Oxford University Press, 2018); Divine Violence: Two Essays on God and Disaster (The Van Leer Institute, 2013); The One-State Condition,...
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