Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical MythPrinceton University Press, 2020 M09 1 - 352 páginas Abraham on Trial questions the foundations of faith that have made a virtue out of the willingness to sacrifice a child. Through his desire to obey God at all costs, even if it meant sacrificing his son, Abraham became the definitive model of faith for the major world religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In this bold look at the legacy of this biblical and qur'anic story, Carol Delaney explores how the sacrifice rather than the protection of children became the focus of faith, to the point where the abuse and betrayal of children has today become widespread and sometimes institutionalized. Her strikingly original analysis also offers a new perspective on what unites and divides the peoples of the sibling religions derived from Abraham and, implicitly, a way to overcome the increasing violence among them. |
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... century painting 7, 8. Brunelleschi's and Ghiberti's submissions to the competition for panels, on the theme of the sacrifice of Isaac, for the Baptistry doors, Florence 9. A Turkish postcard of the Kurban 10. Remains of the observatory ...
... century, in that most modern of places, California, a tragedy of Biblical proportions unfolded with the morning newspaper: Father Sacrificed Child. God Told Him To. So accustomed are we to horrendous tales of domestic violence that this ...
... centuries, however, these children have been fighting over the patrimony, both theologically and in everyday life. Who is the true “seed” of Abraham and who will inherit the promises? That biblical myth still affects social life was ...
... with issues of procreation, kinship, and religion since its inception in the nineteenth century. Indeed, type of kinship system and type of religion were often seen to go hand-in-hand and A B R A H A M O N T R I A L 23.
... century raged over whether human society was always patriarchally organized (as the Bible portrays it) or whether it had gone through various stages of cultural evolution beginning with primitive promiscuity or a matriarchal order and ...
Contenido
15 | |
Chapter Tuyo Abraham as Alibi A Trial in California | 35 |
PART | 69 |
Chapter Four Child Sacrifice in the Bible | 87 |
PART THREE | 105 |
Chapter Six Christian Commentary | 137 |
Chapter Seven Muslim Interpretations | 162 |
PART FOUR | 187 |
Chapter Nine Sa1vaging Freud | 211 |
PART FIVE | 231 |
Conclusion | 251 |
Select Bibliography | 295 |
Index | 317 |
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Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth Carol Lowery Delaney Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |