goods Cain and Abel enemies? Yes, they were as enemies, as they were brothers. Very close to Abel Cain and Abel has been waiting for Cain, in the intimacy of the family, where Jacques Derrida, "is only the friend welcome." Because the famous biblical story is just in its details very meaningful, I quote from Genesis 4:
"After some time, Cain brought the Lord a sacrifice of the fruits of the field, and Abel brought one represents the first fruits of his flock and of the fat. The Lord looked upon Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look. Since it went over very hot Cain and his eyes fell. The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you running to hot, and why lowering your gaze? Not true if you do well, you may look up, and if thou doest not well, sin is lurking at the door as a demon. To you he's after, but you will master it on! Then Cain said to Abel his brother: Let's go to the field! When they were in the field, grabbed Cain his brother, and slew him. "
is clear from this narrative is not necessarily clear, as you might think that the enmity between Cain and Abel was unbalanced, as if his brother Abel, Cain would have hated, and not vice versa. What was going on in Abel, in Genesis does not tell, is in the old Jewish legends, however, reported that took place before the murder, a conversation between Cain and Abel, tried in the Cain, his brother Abel, his pain-from-God- to-be-refused to mediate.
Cain says that God created the world with "arbitrary power" rules, which in his view is "not good". Abel can be Cain's arguments are not one and insists that Cain apparently "bad", or if God had not yet rejected its victims. The Judgement of God, as he understands it, Abel therefore more important than being close to his brother, a situation that violates Cain added depth. The legend is meant only this: From Cain was Abel's view, become due to the ruling of God, even to the enemy.
What happens? The story is read twice. On the one hand, it is clear that Cain can not bear that his "options" are on the side of God and therefore Abel, apparently not recognized. Out of envy - or disappointment? - He kills Abel and is for punished, the other, it does not seem to go to a penalty, but a great task that is assigned to him, "Lord of the demons to be.
History shows that both from the beginning and went all by itself, separate ways. Cain wanted to be farmers, which means basically that he had actively intervene in the natural conditions; fields in nature are not simply exist, they have captured from the wild each year to be prepared again. With agriculture begins in the history of humanity to that of what we call culture: one designed by human creation in which God-given reality. With agriculture, the man goes first but basically in the area of technology, the means to a means of creation. With agriculture a state of mind is connected, which is to be understood as emancipation: the man makes himself free from an embedded unconsciously in his work and created by God from another plant. Cain's brother Abel
but wanted to be a shepherd, that is, stay close to God. He was careful what God had given the people, without interfering in the nature or design on its own to do something independently. He wanted to be with the sheep of his and this being with God. The will of Abel and Cain were the will thus polar: where the younger brothers in a vertical line are wanted by God, that could be in the spirit of Martin Heidegger described as being, the older a horizontal tension was looking at the given world, which would tend to interpret as beings.
took the fateful murder, according to the legend, instead of just at the place where later the Temple of Solomon was built, the sanctuary, then, which was considered a sacred focal point of the Jewish people. In the later construction of the temple was repeated, the voltage between Cain and Abel, which was visible from the fact that the king and builder with his religious wisdom of Solomon, regarded as a representative of Abel and the architect Hieram Abiff with his technical skills as a descendant of Cain was. The heart of the ancient Jewish culture, it was understood it, was thus precisely in the tension between the two attitudes - the way the people of Israel emerged from the conflict between the two brothers, in other words, the hostility that was a brotherhood constituted the Jewish community.
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