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Disembodying Narrative
A Postcolonial Subversion of Genesis
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2023
Summary
Long believed to bear witness to the beginning of all life, the Bible's first book, Genesis, has been plumbed by a cornucopia of theologies and philosophies for ideas about social organization, human relationships, class, gender and gender roles, marriage, land rights, private property, and so much more. For many readers, assumptions about a divine creator, whose eye is cast upon a favored community, are at the heart of Western societies and politics and reside at the core of many national foundation myths. Yet despite all this, Genesis is not a frequent subject of postcolonial analyses seeking to expose the rootedness of inequalities within dominant social, political, and economic institutions. At times provacative, at others conciliatory, Jeremiah Cataldo explores how postcolonialism's rudeness, anger, and subversiveness are challenges to dominant traditions of interpreting Genesis and how those traditions influence who we are, how we relate to each other, how we read the Bible, and why, despite an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, we passionately cling to what divides us.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1497-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1498-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
212
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 28
Adam, Eve, and Steve’s Serpent No access Pages 29 - 50
Colonizing Cain No access Pages 51 - 70
Highbrow Hamitic Hypothesis No access Pages 71 - 82
Flooding the World and Saving a Few No access Pages 83 - 96
Inverting the Tower of Babel No access Pages 97 - 116
Father Abraham Sentenced a Son, or Two No access Pages 117 - 136
