RT Book
T1 Biblical terror: why law and restoration in the Bible depend upon fear
T2 T&T Clark biblical studies
A1 Cataldo, Jeremiah W.
LA English
PP London
PB Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883163691
AB "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." --
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and indexes
CN BS1182.6
SN 9780567670816
K1 Žižek, Slavoj
K1 Deleuze, Gilles : 1925-1995
K1 Foucault, Michel : 1926-1984
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Social scientific criticism
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Psychology
K1 Fear : Biblical teaching
K1 Law (Theology) : Biblical teaching
K1 Jews : Restoration : Biblical teaching
K1 Jewish Law