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The author of this essay explores the psychological and anthropological dimensions of the story of Cain and Abel, and how it can be seen as a portrait of a human that is always torn between the innocence of Eden and its denial. The essay also discusses the literary-critical analysis of the myth of Cain and Abel, and how it is related by the Yahwist, probably the greatest storyteller in the Hebrew Bible.
Onslaught Against Innocence explores the anthropological, theological, and psychological dimensions of this universal myth and shows the readers such a vivid and intense story that one feels we will never get to the bottom of it. Thus, after a deep reading, this well-known story is much more than what it seemed at first sight; it can be said to be the portrait of a human that is always torn between the innocence of Eden and its denial; between what J calls "doing well" and "not doing well". This is a literary-critical analysis of the myth of Cain and Abel, masterfully related in Genesis 4 by the Yahwist, probably the greatest storyteller in the Hebrew Bible. The Yahwist (commonly refered to as J, responsible for much of the Chapters 2-11 of Genesis) narrates the initial slaughter of one human being by another, and strikingly, described as fratricidal.
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