In this paper, written in italian, Monateri tries to interpret Jesus teachings in the context of the beginning of a cosmic state of exception when, in accordance with traits of the Second Temple ideology, the final battle between God and his enemy is going to start.
In such a context the Law reincarnate itself into the figure/body of the Sovereign, the Lord, instead of being excarnated as it has been in the Book.
Thus the Lord as a nomos empsuchos (a living law) can suspend and renew the law.
Even the dramatic event of the Cross can be seen as the entrance by suffering of the Lord into the Enemy's realm and his coming back as a winner.
Author suggests that the models behind such packaging of ideas are Egyptian, and strongly connected with the royal political theology of Alexander the Great as a King and a Savior.
From this standpoint it was certainly Paul (and so the Church) and not James to be on the right side in interpreting Jesus teachings.
With the Event of the Cross the world entered into a permanent state of exception, but the outcome of the final battle has already been determined by that event.
As Ted Sorensen said once: war is something you win or loose in the Temple long before it is actually fought.
Published in the Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin
