KulturPoetik / Leerstellen der Schuld. Die Arche-Erzählung und die Frage nach der Akzeptanz des Unreinen
The biblical story of the Great Flood deals with many aspects of guilt and punishment in the relationship between God and humankind. However, throughout the literary and scholarly reception it has been considered disturbing that God punished people...
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The biblical story of the Great Flood deals with many aspects of guilt and punishment in the relationship between God and humankind. However, throughout the literary and scholarly reception it has been considered disturbing that God punished people with total annihilation without giving them the opportunity to repent and to improve. This has always been a great challenge for theologians, thinkers and poets. On the one hand, God’s purification of the world was, as cleansings are always, deadly and destructive. On the other hand, ‘Genesis’ tells us that Noah also saved the ›unclean‹ animals in the ark, not only the ›pure‹ ones. Should this mean that guilty people were justified as well?
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Leerstellen der Schuld. Die Arche-Erzählung und die Frage nach der Akzeptanz des Unreinen
Schumacher M. Leerstellen der Schuld. Die Arche-Erzählung und die Frage nach der Akzeptanz des Unreinen. KulturPoetik . 2020;20(1):42-58. ; The biblical story of the Great Flood deals with many aspects of guilt and punishment in the relationship...
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Schumacher M. Leerstellen der Schuld. Die Arche-Erzählung und die Frage nach der Akzeptanz des Unreinen. KulturPoetik . 2020;20(1):42-58. ; The biblical story of the Great Flood deals with many aspects of guilt and punishment in the relationship between God and humankind. However, throughout the literary and scholarly reception it has been considered disturbing that God punished people with total annihilation without giving them the opportunity to repent and to improve. This has always been a great challenge for theologians, thinkers and poets. On the one hand, God’s purification of the world was, as cleansings are always, deadly and destructive. On the other hand, ‘Genesis’ tells us that Noah also saved the ›unclean‹ animals in the ark, not only the ›pure‹ ones. Should this mean that guilty people were justified as well?
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All bad : the biblical flood revisited in modern fiction
Modern retellings of the Flood pericope (Genesis 6–8) depend on the age of the targeted audience. Writing for adults, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Brigitte Schär, Timothy Findley, and Anne Provoost ask whether universal annihilation can be justified. Their...
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Modern retellings of the Flood pericope (Genesis 6–8) depend on the age of the targeted audience. Writing for adults, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Brigitte Schär, Timothy Findley, and Anne Provoost ask whether universal annihilation can be justified. Their criticism of the divine notion that evil is universal and indiscriminate collective punishment is therefore justified, reveals values that are incompatible with those informing the original biblical narrative. However much modernity is aware that myths are symbolic, it apparently cannot assimilate their ethics without a critical reassessment. In this, modern writers rely on the realistic premises of modern novelistic narration. In contrast, modern retellings of the Flood story for children appear to be far more prepared to accept the ancient value system underlying the biblical narrative. Books for younger audiences seem to be much more comfortable with the notion of generalized evil and global punishment than works for adults. This becomes particularly striking in a number of picture books about Noah's ark. The narrative stance of writers ultimately depends on the way they perceive adulthood and childhood.
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Heike Talkenberger: Sintflut. Prophetie und Zeitgeschehen in Texten und Holzschnitten astrologischer Flugschriften 1488-1528
Heike Talkenberger: Sintflut. Prophetie und Zeitgeschehen in Texten und Holzschnitten astrologischer Flugschriften 1488-1528 (= Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur 26), Tübingen (Max Niemeyer Verlag) 1990, 570 S.
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Heike Talkenberger: Sintflut. Prophetie und Zeitgeschehen in Texten und Holzschnitten astrologischer Flugschriften 1488-1528 (= Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur 26), Tübingen (Max Niemeyer Verlag) 1990, 570 S.
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