Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical MythPrinceton University Press, 2000 - 333 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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... Abraham and Isaac , Princeton University 10 2. Beehive - domed houses in Haran , allegedly Abraham's home , now a village in southeastern Turkey 79 3. Genealogical chart : The Children of Abraham 102 4. The Sacrifice of Isaac by Marc ...
... Abraham story and took the photograph of the Dome of the Rock ; to Shari Seider , whose work among Orthodox Jews in Argentina provided insightful discussions about Juda- ism and nationalism ; and to Stefan Helmreich who helped me think ...
... Abraham became the model of faith at the foundation of the three monotheistic ( Abrahamic ) reli- gions : Judaism , Christianity , and Islam.2 His story has been inscribed on the hearts and minds of billions of people for millennia ...
... Abraham renews itself in every time of crisis " ( Spiegel , 1969 , back cover ) , then the time has come to take another look . The crisis of society today is about values , about the very values that , I think , are epitomized by the ...
... Abraham if for no other reason than that Cristos had the model of Abraham before him . It is not so much because one is secular and the other sacred or because , in Cristo's case , the child was killed whereas Abraham's God intervened ...
Contenido
Abraham on Trial Case for the Prosecution | 17 |
Abraham as Alibi? A Trial in California | 35 |
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND BIBLICAL EVIDENCE | 69 |
Child Sacrifice Practice or Symbol? | 71 |
Child Sacrifice in the Bible | 87 |
RELIGIOUS DEFENSES AND THEIR SILENCES | 105 |
Prolegomenon | 107 |
Jewish Traditions | 111 |
THE TESTIMONY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS | 187 |
Freuds Blind Spot | 189 |
Sa1vaging Freud | 211 |
THE SOCIAL LEGACY | 231 |
Sacrificing Our Children | 233 |
Conclusion | 251 |
Notes | 255 |
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