In the Beginning was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible by Adi Ophir
In the Beginning was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
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Adi Ophir
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In the Beginning was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible

Adi Ophir

336 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule th...

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