Onslaught against innocence
Subtitle: Cain, Abel, and the Yahwist
By: André LaCocque
Publisher: James Clarke & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780227173190
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Bible; Biblical teaching; Innocence (Theology); Criticism, interpretation; Theological anthropology; J document (Biblical criticism); Fratricide
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-161) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The object of this book; title: The Yahwist as author; title: Date of composition; title: Authorial omniscience; title: A matter of temporality; title: The anthropological dimension. Cain is an agriculturist and Abel is a shepherd; title: The brothers' sacrifices from a phenomenological viewpoint; title: The introduction of sin into the world; title: A crux interpretum : verse 7; title: The first crime; title: A woman's glory and her sons' competition; title: The Oedipal Cain; title: In the field; title: Alienation; title: The theological dimension. Kinship relations belong to the sacred; title: Soul murder; title: God's favoritism?; title: Sacrifice revisited; title: The divine and human in reciprocity; title: God's power : to be interpreted; title: The psychological dimension. Violence and the sign upon Cain; title: Two in one; title: No rehabilitation of Cain; title: Cain : a tragic figure?; title: The psychology of Abel, the kin of Cain; title: Paranoia; title: Cain builds the first city; title: Genealogy and culture. Cain's genealogy in Genesis 4 (and 5); title: The Yahwist and the origin of culture and civilization; title: The Song of Lamech; title: Hope has the last word; title: Conclusion.