How Long to Read In the Beginning Was the State

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Beginning Was the State?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read In the Beginning Was the State by Adi M. Ophir

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book explores God’s use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule that these documents betray, with a special attention to the place of violence within it. The book draws from contemporary biblical scholarship, while also engaging critically with contemporary political theory and political theology, including the work of Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, Jan Assmann, Regina Schwartz, and Michael Walzer. Ophir focuses on three distinct theocratic formations: the rule of disaster, where catastrophes are used as means of governance; the biopolitical rule of the holy, where divine violence is spatially demarcated and personally targeted; and the rule of law where divine violence is vividly remembered and its return is projected, anticipated, and yet postponed, creating a prolonged lull for the text’s present. Different as these formations are, Ophir shows how they share an urform that anticipates the main outlines of the modern European state, which has monopolized the entire globe. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in revisiting the deification of the state, unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.

How long is In the Beginning Was the State?

In the Beginning Was the State by Adi M. Ophir is 233 pages long, and a total of 58,949 words.

This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read In the Beginning Was the State Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 22 minutes to read In the Beginning Was the State aloud.

What Reading Level is In the Beginning Was the State?

In the Beginning Was the State is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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