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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... write an entire book to address . I was telling the class that the Exodus is the central event of the Hebrew narrative , asserting that this myth of liberation from slavery was deeply inspiring , especially in comparison to so many ...
... write an entire book to address . I was telling the class that the Exodus is the central event of the Hebrew narrative , asserting that this myth of liberation from slavery was deeply inspiring , especially in comparison to so many ...
Pagina xiii
... write a book on the Bible , reminding me that the rabbis said , " It will burn your feet . " With burning soles , I want to thank the many colleagues who did help and encourage , adding that they do not all agree with all that I've said ...
... write a book on the Bible , reminding me that the rabbis said , " It will burn your feet . " With burning soles , I want to thank the many colleagues who did help and encourage , adding that they do not all agree with all that I've said ...
Pagina xiv
... write his Moses and Monotheism in the midst of Nazi persecution gave me strength to criticize the bibli- cal legacy despite a continuing tragic climate of antisemitism . While I was thinking through this project , I presented install ...
... write his Moses and Monotheism in the midst of Nazi persecution gave me strength to criticize the bibli- cal legacy despite a continuing tragic climate of antisemitism . While I was thinking through this project , I presented install ...
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... writing a complete history of the heirs of biblicism , would be virtually an intellectual history of the West — and such a project is well beyond the scope of this one . Here I can only point to some key intersections of biblical ...
... writing a complete history of the heirs of biblicism , would be virtually an intellectual history of the West — and such a project is well beyond the scope of this one . Here I can only point to some key intersections of biblical ...
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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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