Violence and the City: On the Yahwist's Leviathan

The story of Cain is ultimately an origin story of the city, i.e., a narrative representation of its nature and function. This being the case, there seems to be a constitutive relationship between violence and the city, for Cain builds the first city only after committing the first homicide. Reminis...

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Main Author: Kawashima, Robert S. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2015
In: Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2015, Volume: 78, Issue: 4, Pages: 264-272
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