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Article: "Leviticus thinking" and the rhetoric of early modern colonialism.
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- Criticism
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- June 22, 1993
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Scripture, according to Daniel Boyarin, offers two discrete political options, the options developed by rabbinic Judaism and post-Pauline Christianity. From our late twentieth-century perspective, he says, both leave something to be desired: "If on the one hand the insistence on corporeal genealogy and the practice of tribal rites and customs produces an ethnocentric discourse, a discourse of separation and exclusiveness, on the other the allegorization, the disembodiment of those very practices, produces the discourse of conversion, colonialism, the |white man's burden'--universal brotherhood in |the body' of Christ." In response to Boyarin's suggestive observation, I ...
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