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Sicker, Martin.

Reading Genesis politically : an introduction to Mosaic political philosophy / [print] Martin Sicker. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger, (c)2002. - xviii, 152 pages ; 24 cm



The emergence of man -- Man against God: the myth of the primal sin -- Man against man: Cain and Abel -- Man against society: the generation of the flood -- Cleaning the slate: the deluge -- Beginning anew -- Society astray: the Tower of Babel -- Another beginning.

Annotation Examines the stories of Genesis from a political perspective and demonstrates their basic political content. Annotation Sicker examines the first eleven chapters of the biblical book of Genesis to search out the Mosaic political philosophy and normative political theory underlying the biblical texts, and he sets forth the conceptual framework for the moral political society they envisioned.

ISBN: 9780275974930

LCCN: 2001036705

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA229070 bnb

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--Genesis, I-XI--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Judaism and politics.
Theological anthropology--Judaism.
Jewish ethics.
Politics in the Bible.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: BM645.S566.R433 2002