Bíblia, história e política: a bíblia como projeto político-religioso

Abstract

The present research tries to understand the Bible text as a religious-political project in three different historical contexts where the biblical text was used as an instrument of social and ideological intervention. The first context studied is the period of king Josiah, who used the Deuteronomic Law as a unifying political factor. Then, the literary production of the exilic period is analysed, specially the Priest Code and the Deuteronomistic History, as well as the groups behind these texts. These documents with their dreams and proposals were of great influence in the whole Persian period. Thirdly, the Chronistic History is presented as a religious-political system of the Second Temple. At last, the research focuses on the final composition of the Pentateuch as the Law of the post-exilic Jewish community. The research tries, thus, to identify the whole range of political and ideological aspects woven in the relevant biblical texts of each period.