Onslaught against Innocence

by André LaCocque

Book Overview

Never before has the problem of evil been a more urgent subject for our reflection. The Yahwist confronts the issue through a sequence of stories on the progressive deterioration of the divine-human relationship in Genesis 2-11. In Genesis 4 he narrates the initial slaughter of one human being by another, and strikingly, it is described as fratricidal. Onslaught Against Innocence: Cain, Abel, and the Yahwist provides a close reading of J's story by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556357893
• ISBN13: 9781556357893
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"