The Mark Of Cain
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The Mark Of Cain
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Author : Ruth Mellinkoff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
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 2023-04-28 with History 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. 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
The Drawing Of The Mark Of Cain
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Author : Dik Van Arkel
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2009
The Drawing Of The Mark Of Cain written by Dik Van Arkel and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Social Science categories.
These are big questions, and in The Drawing of the Mark of Cain they are addressed head-on. The author has devoted his entire career as a distinguished social historian to resolving these and similar problems. He has sought his answers through a highly original, consistently analytical process of historical conjecture and refutation. --
The Mark Of Cain
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Author : Katharina von Kellenbach
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2013-07-25
The Mark Of Cain written by Katharina von Kellenbach and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-25 with Religion categories.
In The Mark of Cain, Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after the war.
The Mark Of Cain
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Author : Ephraim Kishon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Mark Of Cain written by Ephraim Kishon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Israel categories.
The Mark Of Cain An Anatomy Of Jealousy
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Author : Marguerite Beecher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Mark Of Cain An Anatomy Of Jealousy written by Marguerite Beecher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Psychology categories.
Frank Leslie S Sunday Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Frank Leslie S Sunday Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with categories.
The Golden Passional
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Author : David James Burrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The Golden Passional written by David James Burrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Sermons, American categories.
The Last Cattle Drive
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Author : Robert Day
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Last Cattle Drive written by Robert Day and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Fiction categories.
The Thirtieth anniversary edition of THE Kansas cult novel--a wild romp across 1970s Kansas--with a new foreword by Howard Lamar, new afterword by the author, and a reprinted essay, "The Last Cattle Drive Stampede," that is a send-up of some of Hollywood's feckless attempts to make a move based on the popular novel.
A Commentary On The Holy Scriptures Genesis
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Author : Johann Peter Lange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
A Commentary On The Holy Scriptures Genesis written by Johann Peter Lange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Bible categories.
A Commentary On The Holy Scriptures
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Author : Johann Peter Lange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
A Commentary On The Holy Scriptures written by Johann Peter Lange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with categories.