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Bernard Malamud’s God’s Grace as Ironic Robinsonade, Ironic Akedah
Ist Teil von
Prooftexts, 2014-04, Vol.34 (2), p.147-169
Ort / Verlag
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Literature Online (LION)
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According to such a reading, Isaac was meant to be sacrificed for the sins of the community. Each man or woman is responsible for his or her own actions and has an unmediated relationship with God. [...]any interpretation of Isaac as a sacrifice for the sins of the community has no place in Judaic tradition.19 However, as Spiegel points out, living amidst Christian communities, most particularly in the Middle Ages, Jews saw themselves as continually under attack from without. [...]just before Cohn clips Buz's wires and takes away his speech, Buz has been caught in the vines on the tree where he has been sleeping, reminiscent of the ram caught in the thicket. From a human standpoint, this is indeed a novel with Frank Kermode's "sense of an ending." Since the novel encapsulates so many stories both biblical and literary, it is difficult to know if this story is the story of Noah and the flood, Moses and the Tablets of the Law, Robinson Crusoe and his island, or the story of the Akedah.