Language:
French
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Etudes Théologiques et Religieuses
Angaben zur Quelle:
98,2 (2023) 165-176
Keywords:
Cain
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Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Good and evil Biblical teaching
Abstract:
This article reflects on evil, a theme evoked in the Bible at the same time as the creation of the world. The biblical account of the fall in Gen 2–3 does indeed deal with an ambivalent quest for the knowledge of good and evil but does not yet speak of sin, nor even of original sin, as this has become a commonplace since Augustine. On the other hand, a Hebrew term for “sin”, ḥaṭṭat, appears only in the account of Cain and Abel (Gen 4). This concept means neither a concrete fault, nor an adversary such as the serpent or the devil according to a dualistic conception, nor a human attitude. Sin is rather the perversion of the order of life which should be directed towards connective justice. It denotes interference in the order of creation and the consequence of bad choices that make the cohabitation of humans fail.
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