The Will of the Fathers
Jenny Diski: Abraham, 10 December 1998
Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of the Biblical Myth
by Carol Delaney.
Princeton, 333 pp., £19.95, December 1998,0 691 05985 3 Show More
by Carol Delaney.
Princeton, 333 pp., £19.95, December 1998,
“... cats and dogs for you. On the other hand, you can choose not to have a cat or dog, whereas, says Carol Delaney, Genesis we’re lumbered with, deep in our psyche and social structure. Therefore we need ‘a new moral vision, a new myth to live by’. (This is to accept that we are helpless victims rather than interpreters of myth, and that our ... ”