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Disloyalty and Destruction - Religion and Politics in Deuteronomy and the Modern World (Hardcover, New)
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Disloyalty and Destruction - Religion and Politics in Deuteronomy and the Modern World (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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The goal of the work is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern
reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in Deuteronomy.
This goal is accomplished in three steps. First, the biblical text
is considered through close reading to discern the logic of YHWH's
threats: what motivates the threats, what form the threats take,
and what effect the threats expect to produce. Second, a modern
analogy is sought that most helpfully matches the structure and
logic observed in the biblical text. A number of common modern
analogies for the divine-human relationship (e.g., parent-child,
master-slave, husband-wife) are deemed unhelpful because they
cannot support the features of the biblical pattern. However, the
threats of the modern state against those who threaten it are found
to bear significant resemblance. Finally, this analogy is developed
for each of several significant passages of Deuteronomy. In order
to justify and substantiate the analogy, this book examines the
religious and political background surrounding both Deuteronomy and
the modern state through historical reflection. Since there are
significant differences between the religio-political situations,
sociological perspectives are used to provide patterns that can be
applied within both the ancient and modern contexts. Finally,
although the focus of the work is on establishing an analogy
between YHWH's threats and those of the modern state, the book
dedicates one chapter to discussing dis-analogous features to avoid
over-emphasizing the similarity between the two.
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