Doomed Discourse: Debating Monotheisms Pre- and Post-Modern

[...] as Carl Schmitt points out in Political Theology II, because its formula of one God as a public acclamation can be an affirmation or demonstration both for a particular god and for a particular king or emperor. Taubes notes that Nietszche discovered his concept of the transvaluation of values in his reading of Paul's critique of the concept of law.34 Taubes confronts New Testament exegesis and Jewish exegetical traditions alike in order to stress the following equation: Just as the Christians derive themselves from Christ so the Jews derive themselves from Moses.