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Onslaught Against Innocence: Cain, Abel and the Yahwist

Onslaught Against Innocence: Cain, Abel and the Yahwist

Lacocque, André

Paperback

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0227173198
ISBN13: 9780227173190
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Published: Jun 24 2010
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An analytical study of the biblical myth of Cain and Abel, revealing the narrative intricacies and the profound insights of the story.

This is a literary-critical analysis of the myth of Cain and Abel, masterfully related in Genesis 4 by the Yahwist, probably the greatest storyteller in the Hebrew Bible. The Yahwist (commonly refered to as J, responsible for much of the Chapters 2-11 of Genesis) narrates the initial slaughter of one human being by another, and strikingly, it is described as fratricidal.

Onslaught Against Innocence explores the anthropological, theological, and psychological dimensions of this universal myth. LaCocque provides a close reading of J's story by using literary and psychological criticism, revealing that the biblical author has more than an archaeological design. Rather, his characters - including God, Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel, plus minor figures - are paradigmatic, and as such they allow J to proceed with a fine analytical feel for the nature of evil. LaCocque shows that this well known story is much more than it seems at first sight; it is a portrait of a humanity that is always torn between the innocence of Eden and its denial; between what J calls doing well and not doing well.

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