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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... , saith the Lord , for because thou has done this thing and has not withheld thy son , thine only son : 17. That in blessing I will bless thee , and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven , and as the sand.
... seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; 18. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou has obeyed my voice . 19. So Abraham returned unto his young men , and they rose up and went together to ...
... seed . " Identity , whether of plant or of person , is imagined as a matter of seed ; in human terms it is bequeathed by the father . The soul , also , was imagined as transmitted via seed . The child belongs to the father because it is his ...
... seed . " The seemingly simple word seed is anything but simple or neutral . By evoking associations with agriculture and the natural world , the image naturalizes a structure of power relations as it also conceals it ( see Yana- gisako ...
... seed shall possess the gate of his enemies . And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed , because thou hast obeyed my voice " ( Gen. 22 : 16-19 ) .8 Like that knife eternally poised in mid - air , several questions ...
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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