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ON Hamerton-Kelly's
'Judaism as
the "Paradigm of Sacred Violence"'?
Neo-Lutherans
are not the only source
for anti-Semitic appropriations
of PAUL:
in "Sacred Violence: 'Paul's Hermeneutic of the Cross'",
a reading of Paul & interpretation is endorsed
of Paul as traducer of Judaism
with a vengeance;
~*~
~*~
although this by itself
does not constitute an argument against its validity,
it should nevertheless be emphasized that
if accepted
it would set back
any possibility for a common language
between Jews and Christians
by centuries.
-
It DOES,
moreover,
endorse this interpretation critically
but in full collaboration with such a project:
a sequel in pseudo [post]modern terms
of the most violent aspects of Christian discourse
about Judaism,
this fanatical interpretation reads like a medieval Tractatus adversus judaeos, not only in content
but in form as well.
-
its
explicit intent is
to delegitimize Jewish culture
- or ANY culture but Christian -
as independent cultural alterities
in favor of a Christian exceptionalism
by which PAUL represents
the end to religion
and the end to
"cultural embeddedness."
-
This
is 'its' term
AND used as a
pejorative!
-
IT
ostensibly interprets Paul
in such a way
that its discourse does not constitute
a deligitimation
of Jews or
Judaism:
For Paul
the church is not just another sect,
but THE community of THE new creation.
It is ontologically beyond the world of opposites,
and so is not a rival religion to Judaism,
but a new and inclusive community.
It is possible to construe this claim as just another ploy
in the game of sectarian rivalry.
Unfortunately,
Christians down through the ages
have certainly read it as such and used it to justify themselves
and deligitimize the Jews.
Paul left himself open to such an interpretation,
but he did not intend it.
He would have been appalled
to see the community of the end of time
becoming just another sect in time,
subject to the delusions of
sacred violence.
Paul's
discourse is on this account
a discourse of inclusion,
an attempt to break down the hierarchical barriers
that exist between
people.
In the passages
discussed already in earlier stories
in which Paul says "our fathers were all under the cloud,"
precisely the import is all of our fathers,
that is, the fathers of us both
gentile & Jewish.
To the extent, however,
that the new and inclusive community demands conformity
to certain practices that contradict the practices of the historical Jews,
even if those practices be only the confession of certain beliefs,
then it is inevitably a rival religion and a deligitimization of the Jews,
and indeed all non-Christians.
H.K. is,
however,
wholly oblivious to the fundamental contradictions
built into the notion of such a community, namely, its presumption
that anyone who does NOT wish to join the new community of faith
is under a cloud of quite a different sort.
The very claim to be "ontologically
beyond" itself constitutes
rivalry!
~*~
PAUL
did not only leave himself open to misinterpretation here;
the "misinterpretation" is almost a necessary consequence of such an idea?
The obvious fact is that this coercive "new & inclusive community"
still excludes [and often violently!] those who do not
have faith in Christ.
H.K.,
moreover,
reads Paul according to
the best possible construal
of the "intentions" of his discourse
and not even its vitually ineluctable effects
[HOW precisely H.K. claims to know the intention of Paul
BETTER than, say, Justin Martyr did is itself fascinating!],
while Judaism is read by him according to its alleged
"actual" practice of killing
dissenters.
THUS,
Judaism is simply "the impulse to fulfill the Mosaic Law
[that] made him [PAUL] a persecutor and
had killed
Christ."
STRANGE
people under
the sun.
~
~
~
~
ON Hamerton-Kelly's
'Judaism as
the "Paradigm of Sacred Violence"'?
Neo-Lutherans
are not the only source
for anti-Semitic appropriations
of PAUL:
in "Sacred Violence: 'Paul's Hermeneutic of the Cross'",
a reading of Paul & interpretation is endorsed
of Paul as traducer of Judaism
with a vengeance;
~*~
~*~
although this by itself
does not constitute an argument against its validity,
it should nevertheless be emphasized that
if accepted
it would set back
any possibility for a common language
between Jews and Christians
by centuries.
-
It DOES,
moreover,
endorse this interpretation critically
but in full collaboration with such a project:
a sequel in pseudo [post]modern terms
of the most violent aspects of Christian discourse
about Judaism,
this fanatical interpretation reads like a medieval Tractatus adversus judaeos, not only in content
but in form as well.
-
its
explicit intent is
to delegitimize Jewish culture
- or ANY culture but Christian -
as independent cultural alterities
in favor of a Christian exceptionalism
by which PAUL represents
the end to religion
and the end to
"cultural embeddedness."
-
This
is 'its' term
AND used as a
pejorative!
-
IT
ostensibly interprets Paul
in such a way
that its discourse does not constitute
a deligitimation
of Jews or
Judaism:
For Paul
the church is not just another sect,
but THE community of THE new creation.
It is ontologically beyond the world of opposites,
and so is not a rival religion to Judaism,
but a new and inclusive community.
It is possible to construe this claim as just another ploy
in the game of sectarian rivalry.
Unfortunately,
Christians down through the ages
have certainly read it as such and used it to justify themselves
and deligitimize the Jews.
Paul left himself open to such an interpretation,
but he did not intend it.
He would have been appalled
to see the community of the end of time
becoming just another sect in time,
subject to the delusions of
sacred violence.
Paul's
discourse is on this account
a discourse of inclusion,
an attempt to break down the hierarchical barriers
that exist between
people.
In the passages
discussed already in earlier stories
in which Paul says "our fathers were all under the cloud,"
precisely the import is all of our fathers,
that is, the fathers of us both
gentile & Jewish.
To the extent, however,
that the new and inclusive community demands conformity
to certain practices that contradict the practices of the historical Jews,
even if those practices be only the confession of certain beliefs,
then it is inevitably a rival religion and a deligitimization of the Jews,
and indeed all non-Christians.
H.K. is,
however,
wholly oblivious to the fundamental contradictions
built into the notion of such a community, namely, its presumption
that anyone who does NOT wish to join the new community of faith
is under a cloud of quite a different sort.
The very claim to be "ontologically
beyond" itself constitutes
rivalry!
~*~
PAUL
did not only leave himself open to misinterpretation here;
the "misinterpretation" is almost a necessary consequence of such an idea?
The obvious fact is that this coercive "new & inclusive community"
still excludes [and often violently!] those who do not
have faith in Christ.
H.K.,
moreover,
reads Paul according to
the best possible construal
of the "intentions" of his discourse
and not even its vitually ineluctable effects
[HOW precisely H.K. claims to know the intention of Paul
BETTER than, say, Justin Martyr did is itself fascinating!],
while Judaism is read by him according to its alleged
"actual" practice of killing
dissenters.
THUS,
Judaism is simply "the impulse to fulfill the Mosaic Law
[that] made him [PAUL] a persecutor and
had killed
Christ."
STRANGE
people under
the sun.
~
~~
~
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