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A Critical Theology of Genesis Itzhak Benyamini

A Critical Theology of Genesis By Itzhak Benyamini

A Critical Theology of Genesis by Itzhak Benyamini


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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.

A Critical Theology of Genesis Summary

A Critical Theology of Genesis: The Non-Absolute God by 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 family continuity 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.

A Critical Theology of Genesis Reviews

A Critical Theology of Genesis: The Non-Absolute God is an English-language translation of a Hebrew monograph ... that offers theological commentary on Genesis 1-22. ... Benyamini's approach to Genesis is quite welcome and promising. (Craig Evan Anderson, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, April 24, 2019)


About Itzhak Benyamini

Itzhak Benyamini teaches at University of Haifa, and at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel. He is also the editor of Resling publishing house and the author of a number of books, including Narcissist Universalism: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Paul's Epistles (2012).

Table of Contents

Preface; Edward L. GreensteinA Late Self-Report: Concerning the rewriting of GodForeword
Part I. The Creation
1. The Creation of God2. Creation of the Earth3. The Sons of God4. The Flood5. The Curse of the Son6. BabelThe Theological Unconscious - Concluding Remarks on Part One

Part II. The Binding of Laughter
7. Go for Yourself8. The Excess of Sodom9. The Covenant10. Sarah's Laugh11. The Destruction of Sodom12. The Birth of Isaac13. The Binding of God
Genesis Continues...What is the Divine? Concluding Remarks to Part TwoBooks in the BackgroundGratitudeEpilogue

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NLS9781349955428
9781349955428
1349955426
A Critical Theology of Genesis: The Non-Absolute God by Itzhak Benyamini
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Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2018-04-21
159
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