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Reading Genesis Politically »
Authors: Martin Sicker
ISBN-13: 9780275974930, ISBN-10: 0275974936
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: February 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Martin Sicker
MARTIN SICKER is a private consultant and lecturer who has taught political science at the American University and George Washington University. He is the author of 19 previous books, including The Judaic State: A Study in Rabbinic Political Theory and The Genesis of the State (Praeger, 1988 and 1991 respectively).
Book Synopsis
Examines the stories of Genesis from a political perspective and demonstrates their basic political content.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | The Emergence of Man | 1 |
| 2 | Man against God: The Myth of the Primal Sin | 25 |
| 3 | Man against Man: Cain and Abel | 43 |
| 4 | Man against Society: The Generation of the Flood | 63 |
| 5 | Cleaning the Slate: The Deluge | 81 |
| 6 | Beginning Anew | 101 |
| 7 | Society Astray: The Tower of Babel | 119 |
| 8 | Another Beginning | 139 |
| Bibliography | 145 | |
| Index | 151 |
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