Biblical Prophecy in Recent American Theological Politics
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https://doi.org/10.1558/post.v2i1.59Keywords:
religion, nature, cultureAbstract
This article argues for the relevance of biblical thought to progressive political philosophy. One of the most significant problems for political philosophy is the role that religion, and particularly the role that biblical faith, ought to play. Philosopher Leo Strauss provided some of the most influential answers to this problem. He is also often credited with providing some of the intellectual foundation for the “neoconservative” movement. In particular, Strauss addressed two questions relevant to today’s political environment: What is the role of truth in politics? And, what is the relation between philosophical reason and prophetic revelation? This article offers a genealogy of the concept of prophecy with particular focus on sexuality and media technology. It juxtaposes a biblical story with a modern one about how religious sovereigns come to acquire information about things beyond their control. It concludes with the argument that the Bush doctrine is an anathema to Straussian political philosophy. Neither Bush’s invocation of prophecy nor his neoconservatism provide him any theoretical ground to walk on.
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———. 2005b. “Religious Terror and the Erotics of Exceptional Violence.” Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures 14:39–74.
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Malul, Meir. 2002. Knowledge, Control and Sex: Studies in Biblical Thought, Culture and Worldview. Tel Aviv-Jaffa: Archaeological Center Publication.
Miller, Patrick D. 1986. “The Prophetic Critique of Kings.” Ex auditu 2:82–95.
Neusner, Jacob. 1997. Jerusalem and Athens: The Congruity of Talmudic and Classical Philosophy. Leiden: Brill.
Novak, David, ed. 1996. Leo Strauss and Judaism: Jerusalem and Athens Critically Revisited. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Olyan, Saul. 2000. Rites and Rank. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Pangle, Thomas. 1983. “Introduction.” In Studies in Platonic Philosophy by Leo Strauss, 1–26. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Parker, S. B. 1978. “Possessions, Trance and Prophecy in Pre-Exilic Israel.” Vetus Testamentum 28:271–85.
Penner, Hans. 2002. “You Don’t Read a Myth for Information.” In Radical Interpretation in Religion, ed. Nancy Frankenberry, 153–70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Peterson, David L. 1981. The Roles of Israel’s Prophets. Sheffield: JSOT Press.
“Philosophers and Kings.” 2003. The Economist, Print edition, June 19. http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1859009. Accessed 28 January 2007.
Postel, Danny. 2003. “Noble Lies and Perpetual War: Leo Strauss, the Neo-Cons, and Iraq.” Open Democracy, October 16. http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-iraqwarphiloshophy/article_1542.jsp. Accessed 28 January 2007.
Preus, Samuel. 1991. “Secularizing Divination: Spiritual Biography and the Invention of the Novel.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 59:441–66.
———. 1998. “Prophecy, Knowledge and Study of Religion.” Religion 28:125–38.
Regular, Arnon. 2003. “President Bush Claims That He Is God’s Messenger.” Ha’aretz, June 26.
Routledge, Bruce. 2003. “The Antiquity of the Nation? Critical Reflections from the Ancient Near East.” Nations and Nationalism 9.2:213–33.
Rozen, Laura. 2003. “Con Tract: The Theory behind Neocon Self-Deception.” Washington Monthly, October.
Runions, Erin. 2005. “Refusal to Mourn: US National Melancholia and its Prophetic Precursors.” Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds 1.1:9–45.
Schloen, J. David. 2001. The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
Schmitt, Carl. 1996. The Concept of the Political. Trans. George Schwab. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sharon, Diane M. 2005. “Some Results of a Structural Semiotic Analysis of the Story of Judah and Tamar.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 29.3:289–318.
Shils, Edward. 1965. “Charisma, Order, and Status.” American Sociological Review 30.2:199–213.
Smith, Jonathan Z. 1987. To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Spinoza, Baruch. 1998 [1670]. Theological-Political Treatise. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Stone, Ken. 1996. Sex, Honor, and Power in the Deuteronomistic History. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
Strauss, Leo. 1935. Philosophie und Gesetz: Beiträge zum Verständnis Maimunis und Seiner Vorlaüfer. Berlin: Schocken.
———. 1961. The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, its Basis and Genesis. Trans. Elsa M. Sinclair. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
———. 1981. “Progress or Return? The Contemporary Crisis of Western Civilization.” Modern Judaism 1:17–45.
———. 1983. “Jerusalem and Athens: Some Preliminary Reflections.” In Studies in Platonic Philosophy, 147–73. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprinted from The City College Papers, no. 6. New York: City College of New York, 1967.
———. 1995. Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and his Predecessors. Trans. Eve Adler. Albany: SUNY Press.
———. 1997. Spinoza’s Critique of Religion. Trans. Elsa M. Sinclair. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Suskind, Ron. 2004. “Without a Doubt.” New York Times, October 17.
Tannenhaus, Sam. 2003. “Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus.” Vanity Fair. September.
Toorn, Karel van der. 1989. “Female Prostitution in Payment of Vows in Ancient Israel.” Journal of Biblical Literature 108:193–205.
Trible, Phyllis. 1978. God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality. Philadelphia: Fortress.
Vatter, Miguel. 2004. “Strauss and Schmitt as Readers of Hobbes and Spinoza: On the Relation between Political Theology and Liberalism.” The New Centennial Review 4.3:161–214.
Verskin, Alan. 2004. “Reading Strauss on Maimonides: A New Approach.” The Journal of the Society of Textual Reasoning 3.1. http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/tr/volume3/verskin.html. Accessed 28 January 2007.
Weber, Max. 1999. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr.
Weems, Renita. 1995. Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets. Minneapolis: Fortress.
Wellhausen, Julius. 1885. Skizzen und Vorarbeiten. Vol 2, Die Composition des Hexateuchs. Berlin: Georg Reimer.
West, Cornel. 1989. The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
White, Hayden. 1987. The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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2007-05-20
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Levy, G. (2007). Biblical Prophecy in Recent American Theological Politics. Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, 2(1), 59-85. https://doi.org/10.1558/post.v2i1.59
