Reading Genesis politically : an introduction to Mosaic political philosophy / Martin Sicker. [print]

By:

Sicker, Martin [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780275974930

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Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LOC classification:

BM645.S566.R433 2002

Contents:

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.

Summary: Annotation Examines the stories of Genesis from a political perspective and demonstrates their basic political content.Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor	Non-fiction	BM645.S566.R433 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001068903

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.

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