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Belonging in Genesis: Biblical Israel and the Politics of Identity Formation

Belonging in Genesis: Biblical Israel and the Politics of Identity Formation

Mbuvi, Amanda Beckenstein

Paperback

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1602587477
ISBN13: 9781602587472
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: Feb 13 2016
Pages: 179
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Genesis calls its readers into a vision of human community unconstrained by the categories that dominate modern thinking about identity. Genesis situates humanity within a network of nurture that encompasses the entire cosmos--only then introducing Israel not as a people, but as a promise. Genesis prioritizes a human identity that originates in the divine word and depends on ongoing relationship with God. Those called into this new mode of belonging must forsake the social definition that had structured their former life, trading it for an alternative that will only gradually take shape. In contrast to the rigidity that typifies modern notions, Genesis depicts identity as fundamentally fluid. Encounter with God leads to a new social self, not a spiritual self that operates only within parameters established in the body at birth.

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