RT Book
T1 Biblical terror: why law and restoration in the Bible depend upon fear
A1 Cataldo, Jeremiah W.
LA English
PP London
PB Bloomsbury
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1018528717
AB "For biblical authors and readers, 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 text 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
NO Includes bibliographical references and indexes
CN BM520.3
SN 9780567670847
SN 9780567670823
SN 9780567670830
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Jewish Law
K1 Fear : Biblical teaching
DO 10.5040/9780567670847