A Critical Theology of Genesis The Non Absolute God 1st Edition by Itzhak Benyamini ISBN 1137595086 978-1137595089

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ISBN 10: 1137595086

ISBN 13:  978-1137595089

Author: Itzhak Benyamini

 In this book Itzhak Benyamini presents an alternative reading of Genesis, a close textual analysis from the story of creation to the binding of Isaac. This reading offers the possibility of a soft relation to God, not one characterized by fear and awe. The volume presents Don-Abraham-Quixote not as a perpetual knight of faith but as a cunning believer in the face of God’s demands of him. Benyamini reads Genesis without making concessions to God, asking about Him before He examines the heart of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and the other knights of faith (if they are really that). In this way, the commentary on Genesis becomes a platform for a new type of critical theology. Through this unconventional rereading of the familiar biblical text, the book attempts to extract a different ethic, one that challenges the Kierkegaardian demand of blind faith in an all-knowing moral God and offers in its stead an alternative, everyday ethic. The ethic that Benyamini uncovers is characterized by familycontinuity and tradition intended to ensure that very axis―familial permanence and resilience in the face of the demanding and capricious law of God and the everyday hardships of life.

Table of contents: 

1. When We Read the Bible

2. Chapter One: The Creation of God

3. Chapter Two: Creation of the Earth

4. Chapter Three: The Sons of God

5. Chapter Four: The Flood

6. Chapter Five: The Curse of the Son

7. Chapter Six: Babel

8. The Theological Unconscious: Concluding Remarks on Part One

9. Chapter Seven: Go for Yourself

10. Chapter Eight: The Excess of Sodom

11. Chapter Nine: The Covenant

12. Chapter Ten: Sarah’s Laugh

13. Chapter Eleven: The Destruction of Sodom

14. Chapter Twelve: The Birth of Isaac

15. Chapter Thirteen: The Binding of God

16. Genesis Continues …

17. What is the Divine?: Concluding Remarks to Part Two

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