is paul 'miet', 'semiet', 'anti-semiet' ofsowiets?


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PAUL's
argument
is NOT anti-Judaic
in the sense that certain interpretations
of it would have
it be.


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It
is NOT
a claim that
"G*D" has rejected the Jews
because they were inadequate in
some sense or another,
NOT
an assertion
that their keeping of the Law
was a striving against "G*D"!,
an attempt
to force 'g*d' to 'justify them',
a form of boasting,
self-righteousness, and pride,
a religion of Sacred Violence, or any of the other variations
of an essentially
anti-Judaic
topos.

-

The
Jews
as concrete signifier
of the fulfilled spiritual signified,
the 'body of Christ',
the "CHURCH",
had simply outlived their
'usefulness'.

-

They stood
in the world now only
as a sign of 'something
else.'

-

They
had been 'allegorized'
OUT of real historical existence,
and their concrete, separate existence & cultural difference were NOW
vestigial,
excepting ONLY the faithful promise
that in the END
"G*D" would keep HIS promise to THEM,
and they would be redeemed -
as Christians.

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PAUL's
hermeneutic of the Jews
as signifier of the faithful body of Christians,
of the Jews as the literal - according to the flesh -
of which Christians are the allegorical signified, - according to the spirit -,
even if NOT the "origin of anti-Semitism,"
certainly has effects in the world
UNTIL THIS myDi-
DAY!

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IN
OTHER WORDS,
I argue [again!] that while Galatians is NOT an anti-Judaic text,
its THEORY of the Jews nevertheless IS one
that is inimical to Jewish difference,
indeed to ALL difference
as such.

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ONCE MORE,
for the next myDiStories,
I am [again!] going to begin to explore
HOW the 'Jewish Question' & the "WOMAN Question" ARE related historically AND typologically
in Paul!

-

I
will be
developing
my suggestion
that BOTH of these 'problems' for western culture
are produced by THE SAME metaphysical commitments to an ideal ONE
- logos & phallus - and THUS
THAT allegory,
the MODE of reading which desires to TRANSCEND
the MATERIAL differences of language
IN SEARCH of ITS IDEAL LOGOS,
is essentially,
paradigmatically,
imbricated in THESE
cultural politics.

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