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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... myth of liberation from slavery was deeply inspiring , especially in comparison to so many other foundational myths of conquest and plunder . This was , after all , not a myth that described the rich getting richer , but the enslaved ...
... myth of liberation from slavery was deeply inspiring , especially in comparison to so many other foundational myths of conquest and plunder . This was , after all , not a myth that described the rich getting richer , but the enslaved ...
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... myth of scarcity has . Scarcity is encoded in the Bible as a principle of Oneness ( one land , one people , one nation ) and in monotheistic thinking ( one Deity ) , it becomes a demand of exclusive allegiance that threatens with the ...
... myth of scarcity has . Scarcity is encoded in the Bible as a principle of Oneness ( one land , one people , one nation ) and in monotheistic thinking ( one Deity ) , it becomes a demand of exclusive allegiance that threatens with the ...
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... affairs in the world and then turn to that story of disobeying God for an explanation , it still doesn't square . But there is another foundational myth , one that follows on the heels of 1 INTRODUCTION: KEBUILDING UABEL Murder.
... affairs in the world and then turn to that story of disobeying God for an explanation , it still doesn't square . But there is another foundational myth , one that follows on the heels of 1 INTRODUCTION: KEBUILDING UABEL Murder.
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The Violent Legacy of Monotheism Regina M. Schwartz. foundational myth , one that follows on the heels of the story of Adam and Eve , that strikes me as especially appropriate for the vio- lence that rends our world : the story of Cain ...
The Violent Legacy of Monotheism Regina M. Schwartz. foundational myth , one that follows on the heels of the story of Adam and Eve , that strikes me as especially appropriate for the vio- lence that rends our world : the story of Cain ...
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... myth of collective identity . Its narratives describe forging peoples , and it offers multiple visions of what might be meant by " a people " ( each of these will be the focus of the chapters of this book ) : a group with a common deity ...
... myth of collective identity . Its narratives describe forging peoples , and it offers multiple visions of what might be meant by " a people " ( each of these will be the focus of the chapters of this book ) : a group with a common deity ...
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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