Cain, Abel, and the Politics of God: An Agambenian Reading of Genesis 4:1-16

ISBN-13: 9780367886820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str.

Julian Andres Gonzalez Holguin

Opis

Utilising Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of homo sacer and drawing from political theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, this book creates a theoretical framework from which to analyse interpretations of Genesis 4:1-16 and to propose an alternative reading of the Biblical text that incorporates other texts inside and outside the Biblical c

Spis treści

Introduction

1 Cain’s Evil Nature: A Story of Otherness

2 God’s Intervention: A Story of Othering

3 Cain Speaks Back to Augustine: A Critical Reading from Byron to Vallejo

4 Genesis 4:1-16: A Paradoxical Narrative

Epilogue

O autorze

Julián Andrés González Holguín is an assistant professor of Old Testament at Church Divinity School of the Pacific and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, USA. He is a steering committee member of AAR "Sacred Texts, Theory and Theological Construction" group, a graduate from Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, and a Latino migrant scholar raised in Colombia with interests in postcolonial, feminist, and political theory in the interpretation of texts.