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“With the advent of the “modern” world some twenty-five hundred years ago (and for whatever reason), these sacrificial systems were threatened and the ones that survived were the ones that effectively developed a means of living more or less without sacrificial victims in the traditional sense.”
― The Prophetic Law: Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical
― The Prophetic Law: Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical
“The resurrection is a kind of surrealist moment in the Gospels, one in which Jesus appears to step out of the reality in which he has been living, a “stepping out” that reveals that reality to be just one more scriptural illusion founded upon violence. In light of the resurrection, all social structure, the entire scapegoating machinery, is revealed as delusional, a delusional quality we are not permitted to see fully unless we observe the victim “after death” so to speak.”
― The Prophetic Law: Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical
― The Prophetic Law: Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical
“Rabbinic Judaism, which we know today simply as Judaism, as Buber tells the story, was the product of the prophetic law of anti-idolatry.”
― The Prophetic Law: Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical
― The Prophetic Law: Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical
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