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The Animal at Unease with Itself

Death Anxiety and the Animal-Human Boundary in Genesis 2–3

Isaac M. Alderman

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Names: Alderman, Isaac, 1977- author.

Title: The animal at unease with itself : death anxiety and the

animal-human boundary in Genesis 2-3 / Isaac Alderman.

Description: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020. | Includes

bibliographical references and index. | Summary: "In this book, Isaac

Alderman uses insights from the cognitive study of death anxiety and

disgust to examine the animal-human boundary in Genesis 2-3, providing

biblical scholars with a case study for how this interdisciplinary

approach can be used to analyze texts that deal with themes of

mortality, the human body, or the animal-human boundary"-- Provided by

publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020018580 (print) | LCCN 2020018581 (ebook) | ISBN

9781978702912 (cloth) | ISBN 9781978702929 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Bible. Genesis, II-III--Criticism, interpretation, etc. |

Death--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Human body--Religious

aspects--Christianity. | Human-animal relationships--Religious

aspects--Christianity.

Classification: LCC BS1235.52 .A44 2020 (print) | LCC BS1235.52 (ebook) |

DDC 222/.1106--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020018580

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020018581

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For Christina.

After two decades spent together talking about the Bible and art—and the Bible as art—I have repeatedly thought about Melville’s response to the one he loved: Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality.

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