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oapen-20.500.12657-257922022-12-02T02:13:37Z Biblical Terror Cataldo, Jeremiah W. Theology & Religion Theology Religion Bible Studies Law and Restoration Biblical Concepts Biblical Exegesis 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 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. 2019-03-08 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:35 2020-04-01T10:49:33Z 2020-04-01T10:49:33Z 2017 book 1004297 OCN: 965716157 9780567670816, 9780567682628 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25792 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780567670823.pdf 9780567670830.epub Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9780567670847 102538 10.5040/9780567670847 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780567670816, 9780567682628 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) London 102538 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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 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.
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