Adi M. Ophir

Broschiertes Buch

In the Beginning Was the State

Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible

Beschreibung

This book explores Godâ s use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir shows how the Bibleâ 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

• Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781531501419
• ISBN-10: 1531501419
• Artikelnr.: 63433257