The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of MonotheismUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 mei 1997 - 211 pagina's A murderer, an outcast, a man cursed by God and exiled from his people - Cain, the biblical killer of Abel, is a figure of utter disdain. But that disdain is curiously in evidence well before his brother's death, as God inexplicably refuses Cain's sacrifice while accepting Abel's. Cain kills in a rage of exclusion, yet it is God himself who has set the brothers apart. For Regina Schwartz, we ignore the dark side of the Bible to our peril. The perplexing story of Cain and Abel is emblematic of the tenacious influence of the Bible on secular notions of identity - notions that are all too often violently exclusionary, negatively defining "us" against "them" in ethnic, religious, racial, gender, and nationalistic terms. In this compelling work of cultural and biblical criticism, Schwartz contends that it is the very concept of monotheism and its jealous demand for exclusive allegiance - to one God, one Land, one Nation or one People - that informs the model of collective identity forged in violence, against the other. The Hebrew Bible is filled with narratives of division and exclusion, scarcity and competition, that erupt in violence. Once these narratives were appropriated and disseminated by western religious traditions, they came to pervade deep cultural assumptions about how collectives are imagined - with collective hatred, with collective degradation, and with collective abuse. Recovering the Bible's often misguided role as a handbook for politics and social thought, Schwartz demonstrates just how dangerous it can be. |
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... exiled from his people - Cain , the biblical killer of Abel , is a figure of utter disdain . But that disdain is curiously in evi- dence well before his brother's death , as God inexplicably refuses Cain's sacrifice while accepting ...
... exiled from his people - Cain , the biblical killer of Abel , is a figure of utter disdain . But that disdain is curiously in evi- dence well before his brother's death , as God inexplicably refuses Cain's sacrifice while accepting ...
Pagina vii
... Covenants 15 Imagining Israel 17 Cutting Covenants 21 The Blood of the Covenant 25 CHAPTER TWO OWNING IDENTITY : Land 39 Possessing Land 39 Exodus and Conquest 55 Polluting the Land 62 Whores in Exile 69 CHAPTER THREE vii.
... Covenants 15 Imagining Israel 17 Cutting Covenants 21 The Blood of the Covenant 25 CHAPTER TWO OWNING IDENTITY : Land 39 Possessing Land 39 Exodus and Conquest 55 Polluting the Land 62 Whores in Exile 69 CHAPTER THREE vii.
Pagina viii
... Exile 69 CHAPTER THREE NATURAL IDENTITY : Kinship 77 Exogamy , Endogamy , and the Foreigner 83 Rape and the Other 91 Incest Is Best 97 Kinship , Race , and Property 102 God the Father and Homosexuality 106 CHAPTER FOUR DIVIDING ...
... Exile 69 CHAPTER THREE NATURAL IDENTITY : Kinship 77 Exogamy , Endogamy , and the Foreigner 83 Rape and the Other 91 Incest Is Best 97 Kinship , Race , and Property 102 God the Father and Homosexuality 106 CHAPTER FOUR DIVIDING ...
Pagina x
... exile . And so , while I read the Bible in this book , I also read readings of the Bible : biblical narratives as ... exiled people ; it could only carry force when it was adopted by groups who held the reins of power in Christendom ...
... exile . And so , while I read the Bible in this book , I also read readings of the Bible : biblical narratives as ... exiled people ; it could only carry force when it was adopted by groups who held the reins of power in Christendom ...
Pagina 6
... exiled community united by a common literature . That is , most of the pages of the Hebrew Bible are not filled with ethical precepts or Sunday - school lessons in piety , but with stories detailing the processes of forming collective ...
... exiled community united by a common literature . That is , most of the pages of the Hebrew Bible are not filled with ethical precepts or Sunday - school lessons in piety , but with stories detailing the processes of forming collective ...
Inhoudsopgave
INVENTING IDENTITY Covenants | 15 |
Imagining Israel | 17 |
Cutting Covenants | 21 |
The Blood of the Covenant | 25 |
OWNING IDENTITY Land | 39 |
Exodus and Conquest | 55 |
Polluting the Land | 62 |
Whore in Exile | 69 |
DIVIDING IDENTITIES Nations | 120 |
Nationalism in the Discipline | 124 |
Nations in the Bible | 128 |
Defining Israel | 133 |
INSCRIBING IDENTITY Memory | 143 |
Remembering the Exodus | 148 |
The Politics of Memory | 153 |
Forgetting | 159 |
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The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism Regina M. Schwartz Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1997 |
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