Reading Genesis Politically
Sicker asserts that the Mosaic canon, the Pentateuch, is first and foremost a library of essentially political teachings and documents, and that the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis set forth in essence a general Mosaic political philosophy. These writings take a unique mythopoeic approach to the construction of a normative political theory intended to undergird the idea of a mutual covenant between God and the people of Israel that is to be realized in history in the creation of...
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Examines the stories of Genesis from a political perspective and demonstrates their basic political content.
Introduction1The Emergence of Man12Man against God: The Myth of the Primal Sin253Man against Man: Cain and Abel434Man against Society: The Generation of the Flood635Cleaning the Slate: The Deluge816Beginning Anew1017Society Astray: The Tower of Babel1198Another Beginning139Bibliography145Index151
