Disloyalty and Destruction: Religion and Politics in Deuteronomy and the Modern World
The goal of the work is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in Deuteronomy. This goal is accomplished in three steps. First, the biblical text is considered through close reading to discern the logic of YHWH's threats: what motivates the threats, what form the threats take, and what effect the threats expect to produce. Second, a modern analogy is sought that most helpfully matches the structure and logic observed in the biblical text....
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This book is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH’s threats against Israel in Deuter
Chapter 1 YHWH's Violence: The Problem and ApproachesChapter 2 Introductory ConsiderationsChapter 3 The Basic Threat: Idolatry and DestructionChapter 4 Destruction and Restoration as CoercionChapter 5 Rebellion: The Individual and the NationChapter 6 The Horrors of DestructionChapter 7 The Politics of YHWH and "Other Gods"Chapter 8 ConclusionsBibliography
