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In a rare combination of careful reading, conceptual analysis, and creative interpretation, Adi Ophir reconstructs from the text varied and competing patterns of divine rule. He traces the manifestations of these patterns in the modern era, from descriptions of the plague in the seventeenth century to the Twin Towers catastrophe and the siege of Gaza. Ophir points to the contradictory ways in which the modern state perceives the place of the deity in causing major disasters and in handling them, either abandoning the victims or saving them. At the same time he reveals the continuing presence of the theological dimension in contemporary political frameworks that appear to have undergone total secularization. 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