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from Part I - Violence and Ecology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2020
Chapter 1 examines the drama of Abel’s blood returning to the ground and crying out on behalf of the slain victim ‘from the ground’. Genesis 4 indicates that bloodshed harms the relationship between Cain and the ground, such that the ground refused to yield its produce. Cain then had to leave the land and God’s presence. I examine the portrayal of shed blood ‘crying out’ from the land, a phrase that suggests an appeal for judicial vengeance. That vengeance is never meted out, leaving the cry of the land in an unaddressed state. The image of blood on the ground may suggest blood pollution, which likely remained unresolved in Genesis 4. The pattern of injustice > outcry > the land’s refusal to yield produce finds striking resemblance to several other texts in the Hebrew Bible.
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