Abraham on Trial : : The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth / / Carol Delaney.
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, Christian...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 14 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE Abraham on Trial
- Chapter One. Abraham on Trial: Case for the Prosecution
- Chapter Two. Abraham as Alibi? A Trial in California
- PART TWO Archaeological and Biblical Evidence
- Chapter Three. Child Sacrifice: Practice or Symbol?
- Chapter Four. Child Sacrifice in the Bible
- PART THREE Religious Defenses and Their Silences
- Religious Defenses: Prolegomenon
- Chapter Five. Jewish Traditions
- Chapter Six. Christian Commentary
- Chapter Seven. Muslim Interpretations
- PART FOUR The Testimony of Psychoanalysis
- Chapter Eight. Freud's Blind Spot
- Chapter Nine. Sa(l)vaging Freud
- PART FIVE The Social Legacy
- Chapter 10. Sacrificing Our Children
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index