This book reveals and counteracts the misuse of biblical texts and figures in political theology, in an attempt to decolonialize the reading of the Old Testament. In the framework of Critical Theory, the book questions readings that inform the State of Israel's military apparatus. It embraces Martin Buber's pacifist vision and Edward Said's perspective on Orientalism, influenced by critical authors such as Amnon Raz Krakotzkin, Ilan Pappé, Shlomo Sand, Idith Zertal, and Enrique Dussel's.



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Silvana Rabinovich is a Full Professor at the Philological Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico.



Inhalt

Preface: Obsolescence vow
Prologue by Enrique Dussel
Introduction
About this book's title
Declared as a Manifesto
Read Biblically
Thinking Genealogically
Chapter 1 - The Language: A Reservoir for Complicity
Language and War
Shem's Languages
Translation Crossovers: Languages Promises
Chapter 2: Dangerous Brotherhoods: Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph
and His Brothers
... That woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son,
Isaac... (Genesis 21:10 New International Version)
...He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my
blessing... (Genesis 27:36 English Standard
Version)
... Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon
him; for he is our brother and our flesh. (Genesis 37:27 - KJB)
The Brother, Will He Always Be the Enemy?
Chapter 3 - Committing Suicide with the Enemy: the Specter of Samson
Chapter 4 - Victims and Victimizers 1: The Bible and the Shoah
Victims and Sacrifices
Victims and/or Victimizers
Take now thy son, (...) and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him
there for a burnt offering
Chapter 5 - Victims and Victimizers 2: Amalek, the Canaanites and the Nakbah
A Land Without a People?
Thou shalt not forget to erase its remembrance: the specter of Amalek
Appendix: Omnipotent-Impotent: The Exiled as a Threat (Biblical
snapshots)
Chapter 6 - Organizing Pessimism (in conclusion)
The Entrapped Peace: Ethics and Politics
The Logic of the Same and Identity: Nation and Death
The Spectral ethics of the Other: Politics of Otherness in the Mirror of
Language
Epilogue (2019). Arendt with Illich: Corruptio optimi quae est pessima
Bibliography

Titel
Biblical Figures in Israel's Colonial Political Theology
EAN
9783031038228
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Veröffentlichung
08.06.2022
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152