دانلود کتاب Biblical Terror: Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend Upon Fear

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Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nPreface\nAbbreviations\nChapter 1. Introduction\n Premise, Authorial Perspective, and Understood Audience\n Caveats: What Must Be Said Before What Can Be Said\n I Did It My Way: How Visions of a Restored World Reflect the Subject\'s Desire\n Defining Revelation, Law, and Restoration as Pillars of Monotheism Within the Context of This Study\n Understanding the Role of Conflict and Anxiety in the Centralizing of Law and Restoration in the Bible\n Understanding the Importance of Revelation for Law and Restoration Within the Biblical Texts\n How the Theories of Foucault, Deleuze, and Žižek Are Helpful\n Description of Chapters\nChapter 2. The Problems of Revelation, Ritualizatio, Contradiction, and Law\'s Dependence Upon Them\n Revelation as a Strategy for Difference\n Biblical Law and Its Encouragement of Ritualization Are Attempts to Stabilize Contradiction\n Why Biblical Ritual Preserves Difference\n Law Defines Ethics and Preserves Difference\n How Law Might Be an Expression of Power\n Law, Intermarriage, Prejudice: Expressions of Identity Through Contrapositional Strategies\n Casting Žižek Upon the Contraposition Between Annihilation and Restoration\n Contraposition in Intermarriage\n Why Prohibiting Intermarriage Interrupted the Social Order\nChapter 3. Restoration in Haggai-Zechariah as Dependent Upon Difference\n The (De)Constructive Role of Ideology\n Saving the Temple from the “Other”\n Jerusalem Temple as a Potentializing Symbol\n The Necessity of Violence for Utopia\n Petersen\'s Typology of the Profane \"Other,\" or Satan\n The Law as Constructive in Light of Petersen\'s Typology\n Finding Order in Restoration\nChapter 4. The Role of Exclusion in Monotheistic Law\n Let\'s Dispense With Theocracy\n Exclusion Is the Dark Side of Monotheistic Law\n Biblical Law in the Discourse of Power\n The Role of the Social Body in the Law: Ritualization and Exclusion\n Law as a Negative, Repressive Power?\n Legal Taboos or Categorical Restrictions: Further Discussion on Legalized Strategies of Exclusion\n The Intent of Monotheistic Law Was to Create a New Normative Order\n The Reactionary Nature of Law?\n A Final Word on Law as a Framework for Restoration\nChapter 5. Constructivism as a Consequence of Exile\n Understanding the Social and Political Aspects and Impacts of Constructivism\n “We Are the World”: Defining \"People\" as a Shared Object in Malachi\n “We Bow Down at Your Temple… and Give Thanks”: Temple as a Shared Object in Haggai-Zechariah\n Foucault\'s Theory on Power Helps Us Discern Some Important Things About the Temple\n Ezra-Nehemiah: The Law as a Lurking Body\n \"I\'m Better Than You\": Deutero-Isaiah the Ideal Social-Political Body\n “This Land Is My Land”: \"Law\" and the Power of Land Claim as Shared Objects in Jeremiah\nChapter 6. Differentiating Exiles\n Difference and Distinction: A Primer\n The Exile as a “Univocal” Event and Its Quality as a Symbol of Difference\n The Role of a Value System in Self-Preservation\n The Necessity of Exile for Restoration Betrays Utopian Desire\nChapter 7. Returning to The Centrality of Religion\n The Problematic Dichotomization of Religion and Society in Ancient Israel\n Problematic Reconstructions\n Joseph Blenkinsopp\'s \"Sectarian Phase\"\n Fear + Desire = Monotheism\n The Impotence and Power of Revelation\nBibliography\nIndex of References\nIndex of Authors