This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir shows how the Bible's varied formations of divine violence anticipate the main outlines of the modern European state. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.
This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir shows how the Bible's varied formations of divine violence anticipate the main outlines of the modern European state. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.
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, cöauthored 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, cöauthored with Ariella Azoulay (Stanford University Press, 2012); and The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (Zone, 2005).
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Staying with the Violence 13 Divine Violence-A Trailer, 13 A Brief Note on Counting and Explaining Away, 21 Violence, as It Is Unfolding: A Phenomenological Sketch, 24 Literal Reading and the Biblical Language of Violence, 36 2. Theocracy: The Persistence of an Ancient Lacuna 45 Theocracy, with and beyond Flavius Josephus, 45 The Blind Spot: Three Contemporary Readings of Biblical Violence, 53 On the Attribution of Power and Authority, 74 Kingship, Anarchy, Theocracy, 79 Hypothesis, Method, and Stakes, 86 3. The Rule of Disaster: Extinction, Genocides, and Other Calamities 96 Becoming Political, 96 From Extinction to Genocide, 99 Beyond Destruction, 105 Separation and Disaster, 113 Violence and Law, 124 The Sovereign's Moment, 130 Scouts in the Land of the Giants: Three Theocratic Formations, 139 4. Holy Power: States of Exception, Targeted Killings, and the Logic of Substitution 145 Holiness, 145 Rebellions in the Wilderness, 160 Substitution and Containment, 178 5. The Time of the Covenant and the Temporalization of Violence 193 The Experimental Setting: Recalling Violence and Regulating It, 196 The Covenant and the Curses, 204 The Weight of the Present, 214 The Subjects' Trap, or the People's Irony, 222 A Midianite Utopia, 230 Afterword: The Pentateuchal State, and Ours 241 Notes 257 Works Cited 317 Index 335
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Staying with the Violence 13 Divine Violence-A Trailer, 13 A Brief Note on Counting and Explaining Away, 21 Violence, as It Is Unfolding: A Phenomenological Sketch, 24 Literal Reading and the Biblical Language of Violence, 36 2. Theocracy: The Persistence of an Ancient Lacuna 45 Theocracy, with and beyond Flavius Josephus, 45 The Blind Spot: Three Contemporary Readings of Biblical Violence, 53 On the Attribution of Power and Authority, 74 Kingship, Anarchy, Theocracy, 79 Hypothesis, Method, and Stakes, 86 3. The Rule of Disaster: Extinction, Genocides, and Other Calamities 96 Becoming Political, 96 From Extinction to Genocide, 99 Beyond Destruction, 105 Separation and Disaster, 113 Violence and Law, 124 The Sovereign's Moment, 130 Scouts in the Land of the Giants: Three Theocratic Formations, 139 4. Holy Power: States of Exception, Targeted Killings, and the Logic of Substitution 145 Holiness, 145 Rebellions in the Wilderness, 160 Substitution and Containment, 178 5. The Time of the Covenant and the Temporalization of Violence 193 The Experimental Setting: Recalling Violence and Regulating It, 196 The Covenant and the Curses, 204 The Weight of the Present, 214 The Subjects' Trap, or the People's Irony, 222 A Midianite Utopia, 230 Afterword: The Pentateuchal State, and Ours 241 Notes 257 Works Cited 317 Index 335
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