Disloyalty and Destruction: Religion and Politics in Deuteronomy and the Modern World

by Rob Barrett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567689654
• ISBN13: 9780567689658
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"