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Author Cataldo, Jeremiah W., author

Title Biblical terror : why law and restoration in the Bible depend upon fear / Jeremiah W. Cataldo
Published [London] : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 258 pages)
Series T & T Clark Biblical Studies
T & T Clark biblical studies.
Contents Introduction -- The problems of revelation, ritualization, contradiction, and law's dependence upon them -- Restoration in Haggai-Zechariah as dependent upon difference -- The role of exclusion in monotheistic law -- Constructivism as a consequence of exile -- Differentiating exiles -- Returning to the centrality of religion
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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and indexes
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 10/28/2020)
Subject Žižek, Slavoj
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
SUBJECT Žižek, Slavoj fast
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 fast
Bible. Old Testament -- Social scientific criticism
Bible. Old Testament -- Psychology
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Jewish law.
Law (Theology) -- Biblical teaching.
Jews -- Restoration -- Biblical teaching
Fear -- Biblical teaching
Social scientific criticism of sacred works
Psychology
Law (Theology) -- Biblical teaching
Jews -- Restoration -- Biblical teaching
Jewish law
Fear -- Biblical teaching
Fear -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Psychology and religion
Religion and law
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020426134
ISBN 9780567670823
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