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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... story.1 Yet once upon a time , God asked another father to sacrifice his child . For his willingness to obey God's command , Abraham became the model of faith at the foundation of the three monotheistic ( Abrahamic ) reli- gions ...
... story of 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 ...
... story of Abraham is central to these belief sys- tems as well as to the societies influenced , and the social arrangements legitimated , by them . For believers , the story has a central place both theologically and ritu- ally in each ...
... story has continued to make an impact on the minds and emotions of people who are , as promised , countless " as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore " ( Gen. 22:17 ) . The Abraham story overflows the ...
... story does not merely reflect a partic- ular culture and society ; it also incorporates a vision of society , indeed , a vision of the cosmos that has animated numerous cultures over consider- able time . To connect it only to a ...
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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