Biblical terror : : why law and restoration in the Bible depend upon fear / / Jeremiah W. Cataldo.

"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 Dele...

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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:T&T Clark Biblical Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 pages).
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Table of 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.