Onslaught Against Innocence: Cain, Abel and the Yahwist

ISBN-13: 9780227173190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 188 str.

Andre LaCocque

Opis

While in Genesis 2-11 the Yahwist confronts the issue of evil through a sequence of stories on the progressive deterioration of the divine-human relationship, in Genesis 4 he describes the initial slaughter of one human being by another as fratricidal. This book provides a close reading of J's story by using literary criticism and psychological criticism, and shows that the biblical author has more than an -archaeological- design. His characters - including God, Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel, plus minor character - are paradigmatic, as they allow J to proceed with a fine analytical feel for the nature of evil as performed by -homo- as -homini lupus.- No imaginative -mimesis- of evil has ever been recounted with such an economy of means and such depth of psychological insight.