Stalking the Younger Brother: Some Models for Understanding a Biblical Motif

Fox, Edward Inman

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“…These findings require a revision of the pattern firmly established in historiography according to which elimination of revenge testifies, as it were, to a "modernization" of European societies in the Middle Ages. On revenge see Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking;Meyer, "Freunde, Feinde, Fehde";Hyams, Rancor and Reconciliation;Fletcher, Bloodfeud;Barthélemy, Bougard, and Le Jan, ed., La vengeance, 400-1200;Büchert Netterstrøm and Poulsen, eds., Feud in Medieval and Early Modern Europe;Throop and Hyams, ed., Vengeance;Tuten and Billado, eds., Feud, Violence and Practice. 59 The interpretative difficulty stems from the unclear description of the recipients of the wergild: in addition to the victim's son/ sons there is also the mother (it is not clear whether she is the mother of the victim or the victim's sons) as well as paternal and maternal relatives (again, it is unclear whether the author meant the mother of the victim and thus his maternal uncles, or the mother of his sons, that is his brothers-in-law).…”

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Fraternal Bonds in the Early Middle Ages

Pieniądz¹

2023

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This book has been written thanks to the help and support of many people. I would like to thank Professor Roman Michałowski for including me in his research team and for his valuable remarks. I recall with gratitude Professor Henryk Samsonowicz ( † 2021) for his kindness and for the discussions during the Medievalist Doctoral Seminar at the Institute of History, University of Warsaw, where I was able to present successive chapters of the book. I am grateful to Krzysztof Skwierczyński, Grzegorz Pac, Michał Gronowski, and Piotr Węcowski for their advice and assistance in obtaining the necessary literature. My thanks go to Dr Anna Adamska from University of Utrecht for consultations and words of encouragement while preparing the English version of this book. I owe most to Professor Karol Modzelewski, my Master, who always supported me and always believed in me and who passed sadly away in 2019, before the translation was finished. I would like to extend special thanks to my family for bravely enduring the difficult period when I was writing and translating the book. newgenprepdf xi v 1 Chapter 1 inTroducTion 8 Duby, La société aux XI e et XII e siècles, see also Bougard, "Genèse et reception"; nearly twenty years later Duby abided by his main theses in Duby, "Lignage, noblesse et chevalerie," 803-23. The role played by Duby and the discussion surrounding the breakthrough in social structures in the eleventh century are analyzed by Bisson, "Nobility and Family." 9 Duby, Le chevalier, la femme et le prêtre. 10 For a discussion of the arguments of the critics, including Friedrich Prinz, Karl Bosl, Wilhelm Störmer, and Karl Leyser, see Freed, "The Counts of Falkenstein," 1-11. 11 The 1990s were marked by the publication of numerous studies revising the established views on the "feudal revolution" of the eleventh century. The most important among them was the discussion on the pages of the Past and Present journal in 1994-1997. Its participants included Thomas Bisson, Dominique Barthélemy, Stephen D. White, and Chris Wickham. See also Bagge, Gelting, and Lindkvist, eds., Feudalism: New Landscapes of Debate.25 Among the studies devoted to relations among siblings published in recent years in social sciences the one that can be useful as an introduction to the topic is a study by the French sociologist Buisson, La fratrie, creuset de paradoxes, because of its cross-sectional nature and the author's sensitivity to historical contexts; see also Coles, ed., Sibling Relationships; Alber, Coe, and Thelen, eds., The Anthropology of Sibling Relations; Buchanan and Rotkirch, eds., Brothers and Sisters.26 The scholar who has studied the question of siblings in history, especially in the late Middle Ages, most intensely is Didier Lett. See Histoire des frères et soeurs, a revised version of the study: Frères et soeurs: Histoire d'un lien. See also important collections of studies: Godeau and Troubetzkoy, eds., Fratries: Frères et soeurs; Miller and Yavneh, eds., Sibling Relations and Gender; Johnson and Sabean, eds., Sibling Relatio...

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Fraternal Bonds in the Early Middle Ages

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2023

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“…Vaak wijst men er tevens op, dat in Genesis 4 voor het eerst het motief voorkomt dat in het boek Genesis een grote rol zal gaan spelen: de verkiezing van de jongste boven de oudste (Ismaël-Isaac; Esau-Jacob, Josef-Juda, etc.) (Deurloo 1967:101;Van Wolde 1991:29;Fox 1993). Inderdaad kan dit motief hier meespelen: YHWH doorbreekt de menselijke patronen van prioriteit en hiërarchie, en komt tegenover de "number 5…”

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In het teken van Kaïn. Een theologische exegese van Genesis 4

Peels

2008

Verbum Eccles.

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Present day reflection upon the burning questions of evil an violence increasingly dominate the agenda of modern society. Biblical scholarship can contribute meaningfully to this discourse by analysing biblical narratives in which the themes of violence and animocity occur. In this regard it becomes necessary to unmask the mechanisms of violence, and to examine the judgement of violence from a biblical-theological perspective. Violence and animocity are displayed very soon in the Old Testament. Genesis 4 recounts the well-known story of Cain and Abel. The story of the world’s first children turns out to be the story of the world’s firs murder. YHWH’s role in this process is of particular interest: his warnings (vss 6-7), his interrogation (vss 9-10), his sentence (vss 11-12) and his promise (vs 15). This article investigates Genesis 4:1-16 and focuses especially on the remarkable promise to Cain, the nature of Cain’s mark (vs 15) and the theological significance of YHWH as the keeper of Abel’s brother. Genesis 4 turns out to be a chapter with paradigmatic value for today.

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The Pattern of Primogeniture Reversal as an Evidence for the Unified Nature of Genesis

Borysov

2020

Bogosl. razmyšleniâ

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Эдуард Борисов (доктор философии в области богословия, университет Абердина), профессор библейских наук в Киевской богословской семинарии, региональный директор киевс кого филиала Талботской школы богословия (Киев, Украина

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Stalking the Younger Brother: Some Models for Understanding a Biblical Motif

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In het teken van Kaïn. Een theologische exegese van Genesis 4

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