enough for now
#
the upshot
of the former discussions is
that there is NO evidence
in GAL,
on my reading,
that Paul's problem with the Law
was connected with the impossibility
of keeping the Law
fully,
or that the Law was given
to the Jews
as a temporary measure
for specific historical reasons,
meant to be superseded
by its spiritual
referent,
FAITH,
when the time
would come,
which,
of course,
IT
HAS
-
PAUL's argument
is NOT anti-Judaic, then, in the sense that certain interpretations of it
would have it be ...
~*~
~*~
IT IS NOT
a claim that "G*D"
as 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 other of the variations of this essentially anti-Judaic
topos!
-
The Jews
as concrete signifier of the fulfilled spiritual signified,
the body of Christ,
the Chrurch,
had simply outlived
their usefulness.
-
THEY stood in the world NOW
only as the sign of something else.
They had been allegorized out pf real historical existence,
and their concrete,
separate existence and 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.
-
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 day!
-
-
IN OTHER WORDS,
I argue 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.
-
For the rest
of 'my' myDiStories,
I am going to begin to explore HOW
the "Jewish Question"
and the "WOMAN QUESTION"
ARE related historically & typologically
in Paul!
-
I will
probably
be developing
my suggestion
that BOTH
of the 'problems'
for western culture
are produced
by the SAME metaphysical
commitments
to an ideal
ONE
- logos & phallus -
and THUS
the 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.
[I'm going to take a bath!]
the upshot
of the former discussions is
that there is NO evidence
in GAL,
on my reading,
that Paul's problem with the Law
was connected with the impossibility
of keeping the Law
fully,
or that the Law was given
to the Jews
as a temporary measure
for specific historical reasons,
meant to be superseded
by its spiritual
referent,
FAITH,
when the time
would come,
which,
of course,
IT
HAS
-
PAUL's argument
is NOT anti-Judaic, then, in the sense that certain interpretations of it
would have it be ...
~*~
~*~
IT IS NOT
a claim that "G*D"
as 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 other of the variations of this essentially anti-Judaic
topos!
-
The Jews
as concrete signifier of the fulfilled spiritual signified,
the body of Christ,
the Chrurch,
had simply outlived
their usefulness.
-
THEY stood in the world NOW
only as the sign of something else.
They had been allegorized out pf real historical existence,
and their concrete,
separate existence and 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.
-
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 day!
-
-
IN OTHER WORDS,
I argue 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.
-
For the rest
of 'my' myDiStories,
I am going to begin to explore HOW
the "Jewish Question"
and the "WOMAN QUESTION"
ARE related historically & typologically
in Paul!
-
I will
probably
be developing
my suggestion
that BOTH
of the 'problems'
for western culture
are produced
by the SAME metaphysical
commitments
to an ideal
ONE
- logos & phallus -
and THUS
the 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.
[I'm going to take a bath!]
10 jul 2005
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