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Onslaught against innocence : Cain, Abel, and the Yahwist /
While in Genesis 2-11 the Yahwist confronts the issue of evil through a sequence of stories on the progressive deterioration of the divine-human relationship, in Genesis 4 he describes the initial slaughter of one human being by another as fratricidal. This book provides a close reading of J's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
James Clarke & Co.,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter One. Introduction; The Object of This Book; The Yahwist as Author; Date of Composition; Authorial Omniscience; A Matter of Temporality; Chapter Two. The Anthropological Dimension; Cain Is an Agriculturist and Abel Is a Shepherd; The Brothers' Sacrifices from a Phenomenological Viewpoint; The Introduction of Sin into the World; A Crux Interpretum-Verse 7; The First Crime; A Woman's Glory and Her Sons' Competition; The Oedipal Cain; In the Field; Alienation; Chapter Three. The Theological Dimension.
- Kinship Relations Belong to the SacredSoul Murder; God's Favoritism?; Sacrifice Revisited; The Divine and Human in Reciprocity; God's Power-To Be Interpreted; Chapter Four. The Psychological Dimension; Violence and the Sign upon Cain; Two in One; No Rehabilitation of Cain; Cain-A Tragic Figure?; The Psychology of Abel, the Kin of Cain; Paranoia; Cain Builds the First City; Chapter Five. Genealogy and Culture; Cain's Genealogy in Genesis 4 (and 5); The Yahwist and the Origin of Culture and Civilization; The Song of Lamech; Hope Has the Last Word; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back cover.