In the Shadow of Mount Sinai by Peter Sloterdijk

Author:Peter Sloterdijk
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780745699271
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2015-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

Here too, as at Sinai, the general ban on killing is replaced by a higher duty to kill – an exemption that in these cases does not follow from any warrior ethics but, rather, imposes itself as an inevitable consequence of the breach of covenant. Furthermore, the same passage reports that a plague broke out among the Israelites, claiming 24,000 lives. The pestilence, whose punitive character becomes evident in retrospect, ended only when Phinehas, a grandson of the priest Aaron, discovered the source of evil when he took his spear and ran through an Israelite who had slept with a Midianite woman.

The LORD said to Moses, ‘Phinehas […] has turned my anger away from the Israelites […]. Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honour of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.’9

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