Sacrifice and Natality: Surrogacy Structures
In this article, I begin to unpick the complex relationships between birth and sacrifice, taking my cue from the strange surrogacy structures in the textual triptych Genesis 21-23 (the expulsion ["sacrifice"] of Ishmael and Hagar, the surrogate mother; Abraham’s "sacrifice" of Is...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Open theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 10, Issue: 1 |
| Further subjects: | B
Patriarchy
B Genesis 21-23 B Sarah B Surrogacy B Hagar B Motherhood B Sacrifice |
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| Summary: | In this article, I begin to unpick the complex relationships between birth and sacrifice, taking my cue from the strange surrogacy structures in the textual triptych Genesis 21-23 (the expulsion ["sacrifice"] of Ishmael and Hagar, the surrogate mother; Abraham’s "sacrifice" of Isaac; and the death of Sarah), and the expansion of this birth-sacrifice complex in unexpected sources, including Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and midrashim and liturgical poems. These traditions amplify the strange homologies between birth, sacrifice, and surrogacy (endless substitutions) around the (in)famous biblical sacrifice, in which a son is substituted by a surrogate, the ram, and still "sacrificed." The many inflections of the birth-sacrifice relationship range from replacement (birth elided in a ritual of "birth done better"), to the triumph of natality over mortality and the anxious mimetic performance of the extreme adventure and risk of labour. |
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| ISSN: | 2300-6579 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Open theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/opth-2024-0022 |
