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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... question , the question that motivated this book and the years of research that have gone into it : Why is the willingness to sacrifice one's child the quintessential model of faith , why not the passionate protection of the child ...
... questions put to it will be how and in what ways does it conform to , deviate from , or shed light on known sacrificial practices ? Related , surely , is whether the story represents the end of the supposed practice of child sacrifice ...
... question that , perhaps because it is so simple , has been overlooked . Neither religious commentators nor lawyers in the contemporary trial asked the question that has nagged me : what allowed Abraham ( and Cris- tos ) to assume the ...
... questions can expose assumptions of the past , and can show that those assumptions were not naturally given or inevitable , but part of a culturally constituted universe . By asking new questions of well - known stories , stories that ...
... questions are felt by some as if they are threats to the foundations of a house , for they begin to unsettle the edifice built upon it . But for those of us concerned with dismantling patri- archy , it is important to understand the ...
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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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