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Author:   André LaCocque
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.289kg
ISBN:  

9780227173190

ISBN 10:   0227173198
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   24 June 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Introduction; The Object of This Book; The Yahwist as Author; Date of Composition; Authorial Omniscience; A Matter of Temporality; The Anthropological Dimension Cain Is an Agriculturist and Abel Is a Shepherd; The Brothers' Sacrifices from a Phenomenological Viewpoint; The Introduction of Sin into the World; A Crux Interpretum--Verse 7; The First Crime; A Woman's Glory and Her Sons' Competition; The Oedipal Cain; In the Field; Alienation; The Theological Dimension Kinship Relations Belong to the Sacred; Soul Murder; God's Favoritism?; Sacrifice Revisited; The Divine and Human in Reciprocity; God's Power--To Be Interpreted; The Psychological Dimension; Violence and the Sign upon Cain; Two in One; No Rehabilitation of Cain; Cain--A Tragic Figure?; The Psychology of Abel, the Kin of Cain; Paranoia; Cain Builds the First City; Genealogy and Culture; Cain's Genealogy in Genesis 4 (and 5); The Yahwist and the Origin of Culture and Civilization; The Song of Lamech; Hope Has the Last Word; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Sources; Author Index.

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""In considering the comments of other scholars, L[aCocque] reiterates that the YHWH of J [the Yahwist] is not capricious, although unfathomable. What is particularly enthralling are the wide-ranging links that L. brings to his work from authors such as Dostoievsky, Kafka, Freud and Jung, to name but a few."" G.W. Ashby, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Vol 35.5, June 2011 ""This is a fine series of reflections, at home in exegesis and moral philosophy, and not afraid to ponder such difficulties as the absence of forgiveness in Genesis."" Richard Briggs, in Theological Book Review

In considering the comments of other scholars, L[aCocque] reiterates that the YHWH of J [the Yahwist] is not capricious, although unfathomable. What is particularly enthralling are the wide-ranging links that L. brings to his work from authors such as Dostoievsky, Kafka, Freud and Jung, to name but a few. G.W. Ashby, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Vol 35.5, June 2011

Author Information

Dr André LaCocque is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Trial of Innocence, The Feminine Unconventional, and Romance, She Wrote, and the co-author (with Paul Ricoeur) of Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies.

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