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(Ebook) In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible by Adi M. Ophir ISBN 9781531501402, 1531501400

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Authors:Adi M. Ophir
Pages:336 pages.
Year:2022
Editon:1
Publisher:Idiom: Inventing Writing Theor
Language:english
File Size:5.53 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9781531501402, 1531501400
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(Ebook) In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible by Adi M. Ophir ISBN 9781531501402, 1531501400

.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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