TY  - GEN
AU  - W.Cataldo,Jeremiah
TI  - Biblical Terror : Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend Upon Fear
SN  - 9780567670847
PY  - 2016///1201
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Theology & Religion
KW  - Theology
KW  - Religion
KW  - Bible Studies
KW  - Law and Restoration
KW  - Biblical Concepts
KW  - Biblical Exegesis
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25792/1/1004297.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25792/1/1004297.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25792/1/1004297.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37833
ER  -