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Onslaught against Innocence

Onslaught against Innocence

Hardcover

Bible Studies

Publisher Price: $44.00

ISBN10: 1498210996
ISBN13: 9781498210997
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Aug 1 2008
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Never before has the problem of evil been a more urgent subject for our reflection. The Yahwist confronts the issue through a sequence of stories on the progressive deterioration of the divine-human relationship in Genesis 2-11. In Genesis 4 he narrates the initial slaughter of one human being by another, and strikingly, it is described as fratricidal. Onslaught Against Innocence: Cain, Abel, and the Yahwist provides a close reading of J's story by using literary criticism and psychological criticism. It shows that the biblical author has more than an archaeological design. His characters--including God, Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel, plus minor characters--are paradigmatic. They allow J to proceed with a fine analytical feel for the nature of evil as performed by homo as homini lupus. No imaginative mimesis of evil has ever been recounted with such an economy of means and such depth of psychological insight.

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