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The Mark Of Cain
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Author : Ruth Mellinkoff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1981
The Mark Of Cain written by Ruth Mellinkoff and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Art categories.
For few verses in the Bible is the relationship between scripture and the artistic imagination more intriguing than for the conclusion of Genesis 4:15: "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him." What was the mark of Cain? The answers set before us in this sensitive study by art historian Ruth Mellinkoff are sometimes poignant, frequently surprising. An early summary of rabbinic answers, for examples runs as follows: R. Judah said: "He caused the orb of the sun to shine on his account." Said R. Nehemiah to him: "For that wretch He would cause the orb of the sun to shine! Rather, he caused leprosy to break out on him...." Rab said: "He gave him a dog." Abba Jose said: "He made a horn grow out of him." Rab said: "He made him an example to murderers." R. Hanin said: "He made him an example to penitents." R. Levi said in the name of R. Simeon b. Lakish: "He suspended judgment until the flood came and swept him away." After a review of such early Jewish and Christian exegesis, Mellinkoff divides physical interpretations on the mark into three groups: "A Mark on Cain's Body," "A Movement of Cain's Body," and "A Blemish Associated with Cain's Body." Her discussion of these groups is the heart of her study and offers its richest examples of interplay among medieval art and imaginative literature, on the one hand, and biblical exegesis, on the other. Thus in one remarkable tour de force, she shows us how a poetic misprision of Genesis 4:24 - "Sevenfold vengeance will be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold" - made Lamech the murderer of Cain; how there then grew up the legend that Lamech, a hunter, had killed Cain when he mistook him for an animal; how from that, the notion that the mark of Cain was a horn or horns on Cain's head arose (in the poignant formulation of the Tanhuma Midrash: "Oh father, you have killed something that resembles a man except it has a horn on its forehead!"); and how from that, in the maturity of the legend, there flowered Cornish drama, Irish saga, and stunning reliefs of a dying, antlered Cain in the cathedrals of Vezelay and Autun. Like Genesis 4:15 itself, 'The Mark of Cain' is suggestive rather than comprehensive. Concluding chapters on "Intentionally Distorted Interpretations of Cain's Mark" and "Cain's Mark and the Jews" bring the history down to our own day, but Mellinkoff does not claim to have said the last word on the subject. Her achievement is neither documentary nor exegetical but rather demonstrative: she shows us with brilliant economy how the artistic imagination functioned in a world whose intellectual definition was a closed canonical text.
Cain
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Author : José Saramago
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2011-10-04
Cain written by José Saramago and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-04 with Fiction categories.
A “winkingly blasphemous retelling of the Old Testament” by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gospel According the Jesus Christ (The New Yorker). In José Saramago final novel, he daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament. Placing the despised murderer Cain in the role of protagonist, this epic tale ranges from the Garden of Eden, when God realizes he has forgotten to give Adam and Eve the gift of speech, to the moment when Noah’s Ark lands on the dry peak of Ararat. Condemned to wander forever after he kills his brother Abel, Cain makes his way through the world in the company of a personable donkey. He is a witness to and participant in the stories of Isaac and Abraham, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf, and the trials of Job. Again and again, Cain encounters a God whose actions seem callous, cruel, and unjust. He confronts Him, he argues with Him. “And one thing we know for certain,” Saramago writes, “is that they continued to argue and are arguing still.” "Cain's vagabond journey builds to a stunning climax that, like the book itself, is a fitting capstone to a remarkable career."—Publishers Weekly, starred review This ebook includes a sample chapter of Jose Saramago’s Blindness.
Cain And Abel In Syriac And Greek Writers 4th 6th Centuries
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Author : Johannes Bartholdy Glenthøj
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 1997
Cain And Abel In Syriac And Greek Writers 4th 6th Centuries written by Johannes Bartholdy Glenthøj and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Bible categories.
Cain
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Author : George Cabot Lodge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904
Cain written by George Cabot Lodge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1904 with Cain categories.
Cain
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Author : Adolph Holtermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Cain written by Adolph Holtermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with categories.
Cain
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Author : Adolph Holtermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Cain written by Adolph Holtermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with categories.
Cain Son Of The Serpent
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Author : David Max Eichhorn
language : en
Publisher: S.P.I. Books
Release Date : 1985
Cain Son Of The Serpent written by David Max Eichhorn and has been published by S.P.I. Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Religion categories.
"Rabbi Eichhorn has gathered and collected Jewish legend and lore surrounding the story of Cain and Abel, stringing it together like the pearls in an ornate and beautiful necklace. The result is an opportunity to hear the authentic voice of the ancient rabbis, free of the interpretations later imposed on the story. This book will astonish readers with its insights, move them to emotional heights and depths, and leave them awed by the wisdom and talent of the sages. Rabbi Eichhorn, is the author of seven noteworthy books, including Jewish Intermarriages Fact and Fiction, Musings of the Old Professor, and Joys of Jewish Folklore.
Cain And Abel In Text And Tradition
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Author : John Byron
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-02-14
Cain And Abel In Text And Tradition written by John Byron and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with Religion categories.
The Cain and Abel story is riddled with linguistic ambiguities and narrative gaps. Jewish and Christian interpreters often expanded the story in an attempt to fill the gaps and answer questions. This book traces the interpretive history of Genesis 4.
The Changes Of Cain
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Author : Ricardo J. Quinones
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
The Changes Of Cain written by Ricardo J. Quinones and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story. "Ricardo Quinones takes us on a grand tour of Western civilization in his admirable book, which reveals the riches of the Cain-Abel story as it develops from its Biblical origin to Citizen Kane and Michel Tournier. This is cultural history and literary criticism of the first order, finely written, formidably but gracefully erudite, and illustrating the capacity of Judeo-Christian culture and the modernity emerging from it constantly to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations."--Joseph Frank "Ricardo J. Quinones skips Biblical and Talmudic exegesis to follow Cain and Abel through later centuries, from classical times to the present. What he uncovers sheds light on important shifts of consciousness and behavior in European and American culture. . . . Quinones writes with true eloquence and conviction. . . ."--James Finn Cotter, The Hudson Review "Quinones's study of how [the] three Cains were transformed by Romanticism and Modernism into a sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always necessary archetype of the modern world is literary and cultural analytic history at its very best."--Choice Ricardo J. Quinones is Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of English and Comparative Literatures, and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He is the author of The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard), Dante Alighieri (Twayne), and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (Princeton). Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Cain Abel And The Family Cohen
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Author : Mark Carp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-08-01
Cain Abel And The Family Cohen written by Mark Carp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Fiction categories.
Jonas Cohen, a rabbi's son, has made an impressive record as a member of a New York hedge fund. Yet he always remembered an admonishment from one of his graduate-school professors: "Everyone reads the same books and articles. However, the day will usually belong to those who can best read between the lines." How capable is Jonas Cohen of reading "between the lines" as he is stalked by adversity?