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In the Beginning Was the State - Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible (Paperback)
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In the Beginning Was the State - Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible (Paperback)
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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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