mishlene: Hebraism and Hellenism,

Пишет Adradek (mishlene)
@ 2012-10-30 11:28:00

Hebraism and Hellenism, - between these two points of influence moves our world.
Пусть я принадлежу первой - второй, ясно, не могу.

The story of Cain and Abel furnishes an important example with implications for Biblical ethics and politics. As here interpreted, the brothers represent the types of the farmer and the shepherd. Cain is usually remembered as the Bible’s first murderer and the founder of its first city. Nevertheless he began his days innocently as a faithful adherent of God’s injunction to Adam and his descendents to “serve the land” and to “live by the sweat of his brow.” The loyal, plodding Cain even made the first thanksgiving sacrifice to God, of produce, and did so apparently on his own initiative. His shepherding brother, Abel, rather than working the land himself as demanded of his father, employed his livestock for that purpose. And rather than living from the sweat of his brow, lived the free, unsettled life of the shepherd.

Yet Cain’s sacrifice famously pleases God not at all, while Abel’s is accepted. Hazony’s radical explanation of this scene informs much that comes later in the book. God, he argues, does not in fact always want obedience; on the contrary, God very often rewards open rebellion.

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mishlene@lj
2012-10-30 04:46 (ссылка)

Можно отдыхать по обмену. Устроить фатальный для нашего мира минихоспиталитиклаб.)
Правда, я живу уже не в Перми, а в Краснодаре, зато здесь можно услышать прекрасные лекции о культуре Крайнего Севера:)

Я не пробовала быть гебраистом, думаю, нелегко, но захватывающе (лёгкое я не люблю, скучно).

Здесь личная игра смыслов, связанная с именем Елена.

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