The Sons of Esau and Lot: Reevaluating National States in Deuteronomy 2

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Sophia R.C. Johnson
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Abstract

In an attempt to trace the tradition of nationalism back to ancient Israel, public intellectual Yarom Hazony reads Deuteronomy 2 as a representation of ancient values of land-bounded autonomy and cultural homogeny. However, he overlooks two key aspects of the passage: 1) the familial and theological reasoning behind the divine protection of the other peoples, and 2) the messy aetiologies of how those peoples came to inhabit their lands. God calls the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites “brothers” and “sons of Esau” or “Lot,” suggesting that the prohibition against invasion is not based on respect for sovereignty but instead mythological family and relative social connection. Thus, using postcolonial theories of group identity from Gayatri Spivak, this article argues that Deut 2 does not represent an ancient (pre)conception of the nation-state but rather a (re)negotiation of group relations and social identities in connection to co-habitation of the Levant.

以扫和罗得的儿子重新评估《申命记 2》中的民族国家
公共知识分子亚罗姆-哈佐尼(Yarom Hazony)试图将民族主义传统追溯到古代以色列,他将《申命记》第 2 章解读为古代土地自治和文化同质价值观的代表。然而,他忽略了这段经文的两个关键方面:1)神保护其他民族背后的家族和神学理由;2)这些民族如何居住在他们的土地上的混乱原因。上帝称以东人、摩押人和亚扪人为 "兄弟"、"以扫之子 "或 "罗得之子",这表明禁止入侵并非基于对主权的尊重,而是基于神话中的家族和相对的社会联系。因此,本文运用盖特丽-斯皮瓦克(Gayatri Spivak)关于群体身份的后殖民理论,认为申命记 2 并不代表古代民族国家的(前)概念,而是与黎凡特的共同居住有关的群体关系和社会身份的(再)协商。
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