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Chaos is a perennial source of fear and fascination. The original "formless void" (tohu-wa-bohu) mentioned in the book of Genesis, chaos precedes the created world: a state of anarchy before the establishment of cosmic order. But chaos has frequently also been conceived of as a force that persists in the cosmos and in society and threatens to undo them both. From the cultures of the ancient Near East and the Old Testament to early modernity, notions of the divine have included the power to check and contain as well as to unleash chaos as a sanction for the violation of social and ethical norms. Yet chaos has also been construed as a necessary supplement to order, a region of pure potentiality at the base of reality that provides the raw material of creation or even constitutes a kind of alternative order itself. As such, it generates its own peculiar 'formations of the formless'. Focusing on the connection between the cosmic and the political, this volume traces the continuities and re-conceptualizations of chaos from the ancient Near East to early modern Europe across a variety of cultures, discourses and texts. One of the questions it poses is how these pre-modern 'chaos theories' have survived into and reverberate in our own time. Review In many ways, the overall volume represents a grand intertextual study in the theme of chaos, spanning many cultures and languages, over a few thousand years. Most's chapters would fit well in a classics course. Maul's, Levin's, and Müller's chapters could easily be used in a Near Eastern studies or Hebrew Bible/Old Testament course. Kellner's, Mehltretter's, Höfele's, Lobsien's, Teskey's, and Quiring's chapters would be well-suited to various literature courses. Fischer's chapter could be used in a political science or international relations course. However, when they are left together, there is a breadth and diversity, moving from origin narratives to political theories to moral considerations. Chaos itself ranges from nothing, to unordered something, to moral and social depravity, to the precursor of creation and new creation, to the motivation for authoritarianism. Jordan M. Scheetz in Review of Biblical Literature 3/2022. About the Author A. Höfele and C. Levin, LMU Munich, Germany, R. Müller, University of Göttingen, Germany, B. Quiring, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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Brand: De Gruyter
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 3110653699
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Slavery & Emancipation
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Release Date: 23 November 2020
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