Adi M Ophir

Gebundenes Buch

In the Beginning Was the State

Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781531501402
• ISBN-10: 1531501400
• Artikelnr.: 63431668