Biblical terror : why law and restoration in the Bible depend upon fear /
"Law and restoration are central concepts in the Bible, but they were not always so. To trace out the formation of those biblical concepts as elements in defensive strategies, Cataldo uses as conversational starting points theories from Zizek, Foucault and Deleuze, all of whom emphasize relatio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
[2017]
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| Series: | T & T Clark biblical studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Law and restoration are central concepts in the Bible, but they were not always so. To trace out the formation of those biblical concepts as elements in defensive strategies, Cataldo uses as conversational starting points theories from Zizek, Foucault and Deleuze, all of whom emphasize relation and difference. This work argues that the more modern assumption that biblical authors wrote their texts presupposing a central importance for those concepts is backwards. On the contrary, law and restoration were made central only through and after the writing of the biblical texts - in particular, those that were concerned with protecting the community from threats to its identity as the "remnant". Modern Bible readers, Cataldo argues, must renegotiate how they understand law and restoration and come to terms with them as concepts that emerged out of more selfish concerns of a community on the margins of imperial political power."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 258 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780567670823 0567670821 0567670813 9780567670830 056767083X 0567682625 9780567682628 0567670848 9780567670847 9780567670816 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9780567670847 |