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Regina Schwartz examines the story of Cain and Abel, as she sees it; that is, emblematic of a tragic biblical influence over Western secular notions of identity - notions often violently exclusionary, negatively defining "us" against "them" in ethnic, religious, racial, nationalistic terms.

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/1998
      ISBN13: 9780226742007, 978-0226742007
      ISBN10: 0226742008
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      Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts Religion and beliefs

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      Book Synopsis
      Regina Schwartz examines the story of Cain and Abel, as she sees it; that is, emblematic of a tragic biblical influence over Western secular notions of identity - notions often violently exclusionary, negatively defining "us" against "them" in ethnic, religious, racial, nationalistic terms.

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