The Curse of Cain
The Violent Legacy of Monotheism

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228 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1997
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rebuilding Babel
Murder
Identity and Violence
1. Inventing Identity: Covenants
Imagining Israel
Cutting Covenants
The Blood of the Covenant
2. Owning Identity: Land
Possessing Land
Exodus and Conquest
Polluting the Land
Whores in Exile
3. Natural Identity: Kinship
Exogamy, Endogamy, and the Foreigner
Rape and the Other
Incest Is Best
Kinship, Race, and Property
God the Father and Homosexuality
4. Dividing Identities: "Nations"
Nationalism in the Discipline
Nations in the Bible
Defining Israel
5. Inscribing Identity: Memory
Remembering the Exodus
The Politics of Memory
Forgetting
Joseph (He Adds)
Typology and Totality
Living Memory
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rebuilding Babel
Murder
Identity and Violence
1. Inventing Identity: Covenants
Imagining Israel
Cutting Covenants
The Blood of the Covenant
2. Owning Identity: Land
Possessing Land
Exodus and Conquest
Polluting the Land
Whores in Exile
3. Natural Identity: Kinship
Exogamy, Endogamy, and the Foreigner
Rape and the Other
Incest Is Best
Kinship, Race, and Property
God the Father and Homosexuality
4. Dividing Identities: "Nations"
Nationalism in the Discipline
Nations in the Bible
Defining Israel
5. Inscribing Identity: Memory
Remembering the Exodus
The Politics of Memory
Forgetting
Joseph (He Adds)
Typology and Totality
Living Memory
Notes
Index
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