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Biblical terror : why law and restoration in the Bible depend upon fear
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ISBN: 9780567670816 0567670813 9780567670823 9780567670830 0567670821 0567682625 0567670848 Year: 2017 Publisher: [London] : Bloomsbury,

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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 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.


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A social-political history of monotheism : from Judah to the Byzantines
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ISBN: 9781138222809 1138222801 9781315406909 9781315406893 9781315406879 Year: 2018 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge


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What the Bible says about sex : why we read it the way we do
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ISBN: 9780367758035 9780367758042 9781003164074 Year: 2023 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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When it comes to sex, the Bible is marred by inequality. To address the consequences of that, What the Bible Says About Sex asserts that modern perspectives on sexuality and gender should be separated from the more constraining, historical views of traditional biblical interpretation. What does the Bible say about sexuality? How have traditions of biblical interpretation influenced our understanding of sex and gender? What the Bible Says About Sex answers that and many other questions. Not shy, it analyzes why the Church claimed dominion over marriage, while the female body remained a source of potential evil. It wrestles with how sexuality is used, not only in the past but also in the present, to reinforce notions of honor, and how it can be used to manipulate others. Deftly, it handles a discussion of semen as both profane and the "seed of life." It looks brazenly at the pornographic and the erotic passages of the Bible, and how traditions of interpretation veiled them. With the Bible frequently invoked to support arguments in the present age over the moral limits of sexuality and gender, having a greater awareness of what the Bible says about sex and how it is, and has been, interpreted is critical now more than ever. What the Bible Says About Sex is suitable for students, scholars, and the general reader with an interest in sexuality and the Bible, and sex and desire in both ancient and modern Christianity.


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A theocratic Yehud? : issues of government in a Persian period
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ISBN: 1283200481 9786613200488 0567542238 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York ; London : T&T Clark International,

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Among the variety of social-political reconstructions of Persian-period Yehud, one consensus stands out - one which states that the Jerusalem priesthood enjoyed a prominent level of authority, symbolized in the Jerusalem temple. Unfortunately, this leads easily into conclusions of a theocracy in Yehud. The problem, in part, is due to the immediate association of priests assumed to be authoritative with that of a theocratic governing structure. To address this problem, at least three aspects of Yehud's governing structure(s) require further attention: (1) the social implications of a particular


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Breaking monotheism : Yehud and the material formation of monotheistic identity.
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ISBN: 9780567110930 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury

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A theocratic Yehud? : issues of government in a Persian period.
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ISBN: 0567599345 9780567599346 9780567542236 0567542238 1283200481 9781283200486 0567692043 9780567692047 9786613200488 6613200484 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Clark

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Biblical Terror : Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend Upon Fear
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ISBN: 9780567670823 Year: 2017 Publisher: London ; New York Bloomsbury T&T Clark

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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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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures X
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ISBN: 9781463237646 Year: 2017 Publisher: Piscataway, NJ

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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures X : Comprising the Contents of Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, vol. 13
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ISBN: 9781463237646 9781463206918 Year: 2017 Publisher: Piscataway, N.J. Gorgias Press

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