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Not having been told how to express thanksgiving, Noah gave God a gift on the assumption that God would like what he, Noah, liked. Animal sacrifice, in fact, reveals nothing about God. … Even Noah, righteous and simple Noah, the new and better Adam, is not pure at heart and has a taste for blood.
Explicitly for this reason, God now decides against blotting out and starting over: "I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake." Why? Because it is now clear to God, and He here makes it clear also to the reader, that it would be no use to start over—not then, not now, not ever. To put it in simple terms, no human being, following uninstructed only the native inclinations of his heart, will ever be content to be a pacific, non-violent, fruit-and-seed-eating steward of living flesh. The way of nature must be ...
Through Cain's anger, the text conveys its first instruction regarding man's interest in justice. Justice is, to begin with, not an altruistic matter of doing right by others, but a selfish matter of not letting others do wrong to oneself. A concern for justice begins in the passion to get what one deserves and to get even when one feels cheated or slighted.
As part of its convincing portrait of real life, this final episode of the primordial story introduces and weaves together many fundamental elements of human existence, psychic and social...
- the household and family—the first human institution, hence the first element of society—featuring equally elementary yet very different relationships between parents and children and between brother and brother
- distinctive human passions related to sociality, preeminently wounded pride, anger, jealousy, fear and dread
- violent death, crime and punishment, and the rudiments of natural justice
- the emergence of agriculture and settlements, the arts and the city
- the first attempts, through sacrifices, at a relationship between man and God
As a result, this tale manages to introduce, in a mere twenty-six verses, many of the essential elements of human nature, showing us ourselves in a mirror and making vivid how humankind would live on its own without moral instruction or law. Precisely ...